Borrowed from French débris , itself from dé- ( “ de- ” ) + bris ( “ broken, crumbled ” ) , or from Middle French debriser ( “ to break apart ” ) , from Old French debrisier , itself from de- + brisier ( “ to break apart, shatter, bust ” ) , from Frankish *bristijan , *bristan , *brestan ( “ to break violently, shatter, bust ” ) , from Proto-Germanic *brestaną ( “ to break, burst ” ) , from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrest- ( “ to separate, burst ” ) . Cognate with Old High German bristan ( “ to break asunder, burst ” ) , Old English berstan ( “ to break, shatter, burst ” ) , German bersten ( “ to burst ” ) . More at burst .
debris (uncountable )
Rubble , wreckage , scattered remains of something destroyed .
Synonyms: detritus ; see also Thesaurus:debris
2012 December 21, David M. Halbfinger, Charles V. Bagli, Sarah Maslin Nir, “On Ravaged Coastline, It’s Rebuild Deliberately vs. Rebuild Now”, in New York Times [1] :His neighbors were still ripping out debris . 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...”, in RAIL , number 948 , page 43 :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 of debris , and the line to a huge crater.
Litter and discarded refuse .
Synonyms: see Thesaurus:trash
2013 July 20, “Welcome to the plastisphere ”, in The Economist , volume 408 , number 8845 :[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, […].
The ruins of a broken-down structure.
( geology ) Large rock fragments left by a melting glacier etc.
rubble, wreckage, scattered remains of something destroyed
Arabic: رُكام m ( rukām )
Azerbaijani: dağıntı (az)
Belarusian: адло́мкі m pl ( adlómki ) , абло́мкі m pl ( ablómki )
Bulgarian: отло́мки (bg) m pl ( otlómki ) , разва́лини (bg) f pl ( razválini )
Catalan: restes (ca) f pl
Chinese:
Mandarin: 殘骸 / 残骸 (zh) ( cánhái )
Czech: sutiny f , trosky (cs) f
Dutch: puin (nl) n , wrakstukken (nl) , wrakhout (nl) , restanten (nl)
Esperanto: rubo
Finnish: pirstaleet pl , jäänteet pl , tähteet (fi) pl , romu (fi) , rippeet pl
French: débris (fr) m
Galician: refugallo (gl) m , entullo m , rebo m , trollo (gl) m , rello (gl) m
Georgian: please add this translation if you can
German: Trümmer (de) n pl , Schutt (de) m , Ruinen (de) f
Greek: συντρίμμια n pl ( syntrímmia )
Ancient: χέραδος n ( khérados )
Hindi: मलबा (hi) ( malbā )
Hungarian: törmelék (hu)
Ido: eskombro (io)
Indonesian: serpihan (id)
Irish: smionagar m
Italian: macerie (it) f pl , rovine (it) f pl
Japanese: 残骸 (ja) ( ざんがい, zangai )
Korean: 잔해(殘骸) (ko) ( janhae )
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: داروپەردو ( daruperdu )
Latin: rūdus n
Marathi: मलवा m ( malvā ) , अवशेष m ( avśeṣ )
Polish: gruzy (pl) m pl , gruz (pl) m
Portuguese: destroços m pl , detritos (pt) m pl
Russian: обло́мки (ru) m pl ( oblómki ) , разва́лины (ru) f pl ( razváliny )
Scottish Gaelic: sprùilleach f
Sicilian: resta m pl , ruini f pl
Spanish: escombros (es) m pl , restos (es) m pl , detritus (es) m or m pl , detrito (es) m , detritos (es) m pl , escombro (es) m , escombra (es) f ( Spain )
Swedish: skräp (sv) n
Turkish: enkaz (tr)
Ukrainian: ула́мки m pl ( ulámky ) , розва́лини f pl ( rozvályny )
Vietnamese: mảnh vụn (vi)
litter and discarded refuse
Bulgarian: оста́тъци (bg) m pl ( ostátǎci ) , отпа́дъци (bg) m pl ( otpádǎci )
Chinese:
Mandarin: 垃圾 (zh) ( lājī, lèsè )
Dutch: overblijfselen (nl) pl , afval (nl) n , puin (nl) n
Esperanto: rubo
Finnish: jätteet pl , jäte (fi) , roska (fi) , romu (fi)
Galician: farraspa f , murgallo m , restoballo m , garampallo m
Georgian: please add this translation if you can
German: Müll (de) m
Macedonian: шут m ( šut )
Marathi: अवशेष ( avśeṣ )
Polish: pozostałości f pl , resztki f pl
Portuguese: lixo (pt) m , restos (pt) m pl
Russian: му́сор (ru) m ( músor ) , лом (ru) ( lom ) , обло́мки (ru) m pl ( oblómki )
Scottish Gaelic: sprùilleach f
Sicilian: munnizza (scn) f , lurdìa f , ngrasciu m , schifìu m
Spanish: basura (es) f , cachureo (es) m , (please verify ) ñiqueñaque m
Swedish: sopor (sv) c pl , skräp (sv) n
ruins of a broken-down structure
Belarusian: руі́ны f pl ( ruíny ) , разва́ліны f pl ( razváliny ) ,
Bulgarian: отло́мки (bg) m pl ( otlómki ) , руи́ни (bg) f pl ( ruíni ) , разва́лини (bg) f pl ( razválini )
Catalan: ruïnes (ca) f pl
Dutch: ruine
Finnish: raunio (fi) , rauniot
French: débris (fr) m
Galician: derrubo m , esmocha f , estragueira f , talamento m , roiña f
Georgian: please add this translation if you can
German: Ruine (de) f
Italian: calcinacci (it) m pl , ruderi (it) m pl
Polish: ruiny (pl) f pl
Portuguese: ruínas (pt) f pl , escombros (pt) m pl
Russian: разва́лины (ru) f pl ( razváliny ) , руи́ны (ru) f pl ( ruíny )
Scottish Gaelic: sprùilleach f
Sicilian: resta m pl , ruina f , cosi sdirrupati f pl
Spanish: ruina (es) f , ruinas (es) f pl
Turkish: yıkıntı (tr)
Ukrainian: руї́ни f pl ( rujíny ) , розва́лини f pl ( rozvályny )
large rock fragments left by a melting glacier etc.
Translations to be checked