debris English

Meaning debris meaning

What does debris mean?

Definitions in simple English

debris Noun

— The bits of something that are left after an object has been destroyed; rubble, wreckage. There was a lot of debris after the building was demolished.

— Litter or trash that has been discarded. Look at all the debris in the gutters!.

— Large rock fragments left by a melting glacier etc.

debris

— noun the remains of something that has been destroyed or broken up

Synonyms debris synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as debris?

debris English » English

rubble

ruins

wreckage

waste

detritus

rubbish

remains

trash

junk

garbage

ruin

refuse

fragments

dust

wreck

wrack

sweepings

stuff

stores

spoils

spoil

sleaze

silt

shambles

scrap

schlock

run-of-bank stone

rot

rock fragments

rock debris

pollutants

offal

litter

leavings

hokum

grit

flotsam

etc and deposited

dry leaves

drool

driftwood

drift-wood

crumb

codswallop

bull

ash

accretion

Examples debris examples

How do I use debris in a sentence?

Simple sentences

First they saw the debris then they looked at each other.

The cupboards were overflowing with the accumulated debris of several years.

Satellite imagery is being used in an effort to narrow down the area in the Indian Ocean where floating debris has been observed.

Makemake is located in the Kuiper Belt. The Kuiper Belt is an area of gas, dust, and rocky debris located at the outer edge of our solar system.

The Cosmic Dust Laboratory at NASA's Johnson Space Center contains the largest collection of comet debris on Earth.

There was debris everywhere.

The Perseids occur when Earth enters the debris field left behind by the comet Swift-Tuttle.

The Earth will exit the debris field in late August.

It's hard to believe that no one was covered by the building's debris in the earthquake this morning.

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And all the debris left by these mighty waters. they are our mountains.

The countryside was sown with the debris of bloody battles.

With the Field Marshall's permission, he has been buried under the debris since last night.

Remove the debris, but take care of the horses.

And you there with your swollen nose and silly grin. Have you got a year left to pollute the earth with your debris?

More debris.

That's debris?

Most people's lives what are they but trails of debris?

Each day more debris, more debris.

Long, long trails of debris with nothing to clean it all up but, finally, death.

As and debris.

With this we're sure not to block the grooves with debris.

Double-checking Outpost 3, I read dust and debris.

It would appear his intention is to use the flying debris field in an attempt to destroy my terminal.

By calculating trajectories with my computing power, it would be child's play to evade the path of the oncoming debris.

Once the station is destroyed, the micro-drones will scatter through its orbit along with the other debris.

This is the dreaded monsoon, the big rain, throughout the evening and night downpours rush toward the earth, every single drop turns into a wild river and drags cliff debris as well as entire mountain sides along into the deep.

With never-ending ridges, debris sliding down below of the skyscraper-like Kanchenjungha.

Think of these unfortunates, every day at dawn, sweeping debris into the gutter with coarse broomsticks.

Have you got a year left to pollute the earth with your debris?

Let's get the debris up front.

Everything is burned debris and done!

I read dust and debris.

We now have aboard debris from Outpost 4, captain.

All debris into disposal tubes.

Debris scattering ahead, sir.

Simple debris.

More debris into the tubes!

Place one in with the debris.

Debris on our scanners.

Picking up some debris on our scanners, Captain.

The debris is what's left of the Antares.

Only drifting debris.

News and current affairs

The destruction of the Chinese satellite produced roughly 300,000 pieces of debris, causing severe pollution and putting many other spacecraft in the Earth's orbit in grave danger.

Having spent a decade dismantling the debris of state socialism, most of these countries chafe at the idea of importing the European social market's idea of solidarity via the EU.

Shortly afterwards, China blew up one of its satellites, immediately doubling the type of fine orbiting debris that is dangerous because it is hard to track.

The surface of coral is highly sensitive, and will now be exposed to major damage from all sorts of silt and debris carried back by water receding from flooded land.

Yes there was a crisis, yes debris is still lies around.

And it is in America's public debt that the debris of its financial system's broken promises are collected, just as Italy's massive public debt reflects its past national prodigality.

The energetic collisions produce all manner of debris, which physicists carefully track with huge detectors and sift with sophisticated computer algorithms.

First, they must identify patterns in the debris that could have come from the production and rapid decay of a Higgs particle.

Physicists searching for a few Higgs-like needles in a mind-bogglingly large haystack must comb their data for anomalies in the debris that cannot be accounted for by known processes.

After the wave passed, a chaotic mountain of debris was all that was left of Kamaishi, Japan's oldest steel-manufacturing town, in Iwate prefecture.

And there were huge frustrations even when the search shifted to the Indian Ocean, as massive naval and air resources failed to find any trace of relevant surface debris.

Indeed, it is not entirely farfetched to anticipate the emergence of new Arab states from the debris of the old, artificial ones.