OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 9758

debris

/ˈdɛbɹi/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
detrito • detritos • detritus • escombra • escombro • escombros • restos
Rubble, wreckage, scattered remains of something destroyed.
But signalman Bridges was never to answer driver Gimbert's desperate question. A deafening, massive blast blew the wagon to shreds, the 44 high-explosive bombs exploding like simul…
His neighbors were still ripping out debris. But Mr. Ryan, a retired bricklayer who built his house by hand 30 years ago only to lose most of it to Hurricane Sandy, was already har…
basura • cachureo
Litter and discarded refuse.
[The researchers] noticed many of their pieces of [plastic marine] debris sported surface pits around two microns across. Such pits are about the size of a bacterial cell. Closer e…
ruina • ruinas
The ruins of a broken-down structure.
fragmentos glaciares • morrena
Large rock fragments left by a melting glacier etc.
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