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Meanings of rubble in English

Russian
бут
Portuguese
resíduo da construção civil
Spanish
escombro
Wikidata

Broken stone, of irregular size, shape and texture.

бут
Portuguese
ruínas
Catalan
enderrocs

The remains of something that has been destroyed or broken up.

ruínas
Usage of rubble in English
1
Locals have been helping to clear rubble from affected buildings, he said.
Radio NZ
2
Seventy-five years ago, the Spanish town of Guernica was bombed into rubble.
The Guardian
3
As far as she was concerned, the building could fall to rubble.
Solomon's oak: a novel
4
Below me people are making their way to work across rubble-strewn courtyards.
Full Circle
5
In Yingxiu, dynamite was being used to clear rubble and unsafe buildings.
Reuters
6
The protests started with groups barricading roads using burning tyres and rubble.
The South African
7
You must let us go, lest she smash this place to rubble.
Winter door
8
A Reuters witness saw three bodies being brought out of the rubble.
Reuters
9
Scores of protesters were seen barricading roads with burning tyres and rubble.
The South African
10
In places the yak trail led between steep banks of unstable rubble.
Rock and Ice Magazine
11
And, irritably from beyond the rubble mound: All right, then, suit yourself.
A Canticle For Leibowitz
12
I'll show you. He led the way beyond the bank of rubble.
Dogsbody
13
She led her mare through the rubble to the keep's main entrance.
A feast for crows
14
People were forced to relieve themselves in nearby rubble behind our houses.
The South African
15
The clay below the rubble on the slopes got slick as ice.
The Big-Town Round-Up
16
It never changes; a single lupine exhalation could re-ice it to rubble.
The thirteenth tale: a novel
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Common
Ireland
Common
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