debris

(Inglese)

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.

Pronunciato come (IPA)

/ˈdɛbɹi/

Etimologia (Inglese)

Affine tedesco antico alto: bristan

Affine inglese antico: berstan

Affine tedesco: 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.

Concetti

macerie

ruderi

detrito

maceria

avanzi

rottamo

pietraia

stoppia

sfasciume

rovine

sabbietta

residui

rifiuto organico

rifiuti

rovina

spazzatura

cianfrusaglia

detriti

sinonimi

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