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rubble
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Word definitions for rubble in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"rough, irregular stones broken from larger masses," late 14c., robeyl , from Anglo-French *robel "bits of broken stone," probably related to rubbish [OED], but also possibly from Old French robe (see rob ).
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The broken remains of an object, usually rock or masonry.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the remains of something that has been destroyed or broken up [syn: debris , dust , junk , detritus ]
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Rubble may refer to: Rubble , stone debris/fragments Rubble masonry Rubble pile , in astronomy Riprap Rubble Crab , a type of crab Rubble Creek , in southwestern British Columbia, Canada
Usage examples of rubble.
Out of the rubble of this body, I created Abraxas anew, Abraxas the perfect god, the giver of life, the force of good and evil, because it was my destiny to do so.
A Victorian architect, fortified and encouraged by the Ancred of his day, had pulled down a Queen Anne house and, from its rubble, caused to rise up a sublimation of his most exotic day-dreams.
The complex interaction of their gravity fields prohibited any major ring system from forming, but all of the larger moons shepherded substantial quantities of asteroidal rubble.
Three backpacks exploded as the train pulled into the Atocha station, hurling rubble and steel and the unwitting in every direction.
The land along the road into Cabo San Lucas reminded her of a checkerboard: lush tropical plantings interrupted, as though by a knife, by the real landscape, yellow and dry: cacti and strange parched trees and sawtoothed mountains in the distance, formed of gigantic bouldery rubble like the leftovers of some geological building site.
Cabo San Lucas reminded her of a checkerboard: lush tropical plantings interrupted, as though by a knife, by the real landscape, yellow and dry: cacti and strange parched trees and sawtoothed mountains in the distance, formed of gigantic bouldery rubble like the leftovers of some geological building site.
There were no windows, only bricked up spaces where glass had once been, and all the balconies had been torn down, so that only their rubbled remains lay at the base of the wall.
Ronnie Bucca was a professional, but as he made his way across the rubble that morning, anger began to well up inside him.
And he burned the lot he could burn, and carried every bucketload of rubble, fill, earth, whatever, far away from Triocala in a thousand different directions.
The ground on either side of the fissure had buckled and thrust upward so that the crevice was bordered by mounds of dirt and rubble.
Though pinned under the collapsed wall, Dex searched the rubble for any way to defend himself.
Caught in the rubble, Dex strained to reach the ray gun, but his fingers only grazed it.
Le Cagot, a bull of strength and endurance despite his fifty years, always went down first, sweeping up as he made his slow descent, clearing ledges and dihedrons of loose rock and rubble that could be knocked off by the cable and kill a man in the shaft.
It is a common practice in erecting buildings with a facing of Kentish rag rubble to back up the stonework with bricks.
A matter of a week of solid mudslinging, to which even Julian contributed his share, stripping naked and standing shoulder-deep in the enormous ditch like the lowliest slave, exhorting his men to haul the rubble and dirt of the generations for the glory of Rome.