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rubble
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Rubble
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rub·ble
/
ˈrʌb
əl
or for 3, 4,
ˈru
bəl
/
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[
ruhb
-
uh
l
or for 3, 4,
roo
-b
uh
l
]
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noun
1.
broken bits and pieces of anything, as that
which
is demolished:
Bombing reduced the town to rubble.
2.
any solid substance, as ice, in irregularly broken pieces.
3.
rough fragments of broken stone, formed by geological processes, in quarrying, etc., and sometimes used in masonry.
4.
masonry built of rough fragments of broken stone.
Origin:
1350–1400;
Middle English
rubel, robil
< ?; cf.
rubbish
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World English Dictionary
rubble
(ˈrʌb
ə
l)
—
n
1.
fragments of broken stones, bricks, etc
2.
any fragmented solid material, esp the debris from ruined buildings
3.
quarrying
the weathered surface layer of rock
4.
Also called:
rubblework
masonry constructed of broken pieces of rock, stone, etc
[C14
robyl
; perhaps related to Middle English
rubben
to rub, or to
rubbish
]
'rubbly
—
adj
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 10th Edition
2009 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins
Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009
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Word Origin & History
rubble
c.1400, from Anglo-Norm. *robel "bits of broken stone," probably related to
rubbish
, but also possibly from O.Fr. robe (see
rob
).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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Example sentences
The corpses and
rubble
that littered the streets during five months of civil
strife have gone.
Note the coral
rubble
in the foreground, which was created by the net dragging
on the coral reef.
Glaciers moved down from the mountains, dragging along rocks and the
rubble
that would be left behind when the ice melted.
In deserted villages a few houses stand among heaps of
rubble
.
What was once an archaeological treasure and tour stop became a moonscape of craters and
rubble
.
Barricades of
rubble
and barbed wire sprang up across major intersections.
From the
rubble
he extricated a beautifully crafted, fossilized bone harpoon point.
Ever since, the
rubble
of old realms has teased and provoked imaginations.
He says all he found in the shattered palace was a family living in the
rubble
.
They locate people trapped in the
rubble
of collapsed buildings.
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"All the old supports going, gone, this man reaches out a hand to steady himself on a ledge of rough brick that is warm in the sun: his hand feeds him messages of solidity, but his mind messages of destruction, for this breathing substance, made of earth, will be a dance of atoms, he knows it, his intelligence tells him so: there will soon be war, he is in the middle of war, where he stands will be a waste, mounds of
rubble
, and this solid earthy substance will be a film of dust on ruins."
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