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Etymology

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Borrowed fromFrenchdébris, itself fromdé-(“de-”) +bris(“broken, crumbled”), or fromMiddle Frenchdebriser(“to break apart”), fromOld Frenchdebrisier, itself fromde- +brisier(“to break apart, shatter, bust”), fromFrankish*bristijan,*bristan,*brestan(“to break violently, shatter, bust”), fromProto-Germanic*brestaną(“to break, burst”), fromProto-Indo-European*bʰrest-(“to separate, burst”). Cognate withOld High Germanbristan(“to break asunder, burst”),Old Englishberstan(“to break, shatter, burst”),Germanbersten(“to burst”). More atburst.

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Noun

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debris (uncountable)

  1. Rubble,wreckage,scatteredremains of somethingdestroyed.
    Synonyms:detritus;see alsoThesaurus:debris
    • 2012 December 21, David M. Halbfinger, Charles V. Bagli, Sarah Maslin Nir, “On Ravaged Coastline, It’s Rebuild Deliberately vs. Rebuild Now”, inNew York Times‎[1]:
      His neighbors were still ripping outdebris. But Mr. Ryan, a retired bricklayer who built his house by hand 30 years ago only to lose most of it to Hurricane Sandy, was already hard at work rebuilding.
    • 2022 January 12, Benedict le Vay, “The heroes of Soham...”, inRAIL, number948, page43:
      But signalman Bridges was never to answer driver Gimbert's desperate question. A deafening, massive blast blew the wagon to shreds, the 44 high-explosive bombs exploding like simultaneous hits from the aircraft they should have been dropped from. The station was instantly reduced to bits ofdebris, and the line to a huge crater.
  2. Litter anddiscardedrefuse.
    Synonyms:seeThesaurus:trash
    • 2013 July 20, “Welcome to the plastisphere”, inThe Economist, volume408, number8845:
      [The researchers] noticed many of their pieces of [plastic marine]debris sported surface pits around two microns across. Such pits are about the size of a bacterial cell. Closer examination showed that some of these pits did, indeed, contain bacteria, […].
  3. (Can weverify(+) this sense?) Theruins of abroken-down structure.
  4. (geology) Largerockfragments left by a meltingglacier etc.

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Translations

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rubble, wreckage, scattered remains of something destroyed
litter and discarded refuse
ruins of a broken-down structure
large rock fragments left by a melting glacier etc.
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