debris

Betekenis (Engels)

1. (uncountable) Rubble, wreckage, scattered remains of something destroyed.
2. (uncountable) Litter and discarded refuse.
3. (uncountable) The ruins of a broken-down structure.
4. (uncountable) Large rock fragments left by a melting glacier etc.

Sinonieme

rubble

ruins

waste

wreckage

detritus

rubbish

remains

trash

garbage

🗑️

junk

fragments

dust

refuse

ruin

accretion

leavings

litter

offal

pollutants

rock fragments

flotsam

rot

drool

driftwood

run-of-bank stone

crumb

schlock

scrap

shambles

silt

sleaze

spoil

spoils

stores

stuff

sweepings

codswallop

wrack

wreck

bull

dry leaves

ash

drift-wood

rock debris

etc and deposited

grit

hokum

Vertalings

débris

Schutt

puin

Trümmer

décombres

macerie

escombros

destroços

escombros

ruínas

afval

brisures

rommel

abattis

ερείπια

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/ˈdɛbɹi/

Etimologie (Engels)

Verwante met Old High German: bristan

Verwante met Old English: berstan

Verwante met Duits: bersten

In summary

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.