First they saw the debris then they looked at each other.
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Debris
//dəˈbɹiː//
Synonyms for "debris" (126 found)
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Closest matches (26)
Strong matches (37)
Related words (63)
Noun(18 words)
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5 entriesSynonyms
1 entriesRelated terms
2 entriesat location
3 entriesderived
9 entrieshas context
1 entriesis a
1 entriesrelated to
13 entriesTranslations
146 translations across 38 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- χέραδος noun (rubble, wreckage, scattered remains of something destroyed)
Arabic
1 entries- رُكام noun (rubble, wreckage, scattered remains of something destroyed)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- dağıntı noun (rubble, wreckage, scattered remains of something destroyed)
Belarusian
4 entries- абло́мкі noun (rubble, wreckage, scattered remains of something destroyed)
- адло́мкі noun (rubble, wreckage, scattered remains of something destroyed)
- разва́ліны noun (ruins of a broken-down structure)
- руі́ны noun (ruins of a broken-down structure)
Bulgarian
4 entries- оста́тъци noun (litter and discarded refuse)
- отло́мки noun (rubble, wreckage, scattered remains of something destroyed)
- отло́мки noun (ruins of a broken-down structure)
- отпа́дъци noun (litter and discarded refuse)
Catalan
2 entries- restes noun (rubble, wreckage, scattered remains of something destroyed)
- ruïnes noun (ruins of a broken-down structure)
Central Kurdish
1 entries- داروپەردو noun (rubble, wreckage, scattered remains of something destroyed)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 垃圾 noun (litter and discarded refuse)
- 殘骸 /残骸 noun (rubble, wreckage, scattered remains of something destroyed)
Czech
2 entries- sutiny noun (rubble, wreckage, scattered remains of something destroyed)
- trosky noun (rubble, wreckage, scattered remains of something destroyed)
Dutch
4 entries- afval noun (litter and discarded refuse)
- gletjserpuin n etc. noun (large rock fragments left by a melting glacier etc.)
- overblijfselen noun (litter and discarded refuse)
- puin noun (rubble, wreckage, scattered remains of something destroyed)
Esperanto
2 entries- rubo noun (rubble, wreckage, scattered remains of something destroyed)
- rubo noun (litter and discarded refuse)
Finnish
4 entries- jäte noun (litter and discarded refuse)
- jätteet noun (litter and discarded refuse)
- jäänteet noun (rubble, wreckage, scattered remains of something destroyed)
- lohkare noun (large rock fragments left by a melting glacier etc.)
French
2 entries- débris noun (rubble, wreckage, scattered remains of something destroyed)
- débris noun (ruins of a broken-down structure)
Galician
4 entries- derrubo noun (ruins of a broken-down structure)
- entullo noun (rubble, wreckage, scattered remains of something destroyed)
- esmocha noun (ruins of a broken-down structure)
- estragueira noun (ruins of a broken-down structure)
German
4 entries- Geröll noun (rubble, wreckage, scattered remains of something destroyed)
- Geröll noun (large rock fragments left by a melting glacier etc.)
- Müll noun (litter and discarded refuse)
- Ruine noun (ruins of a broken-down structure)
Greek
1 entries- συντρίμμια noun (rubble, wreckage, scattered remains of something destroyed)
Hindi
4 entries- अवशेष noun (litter and discarded refuse)
- खंडहर noun (ruins of a broken-down structure)
- मलबा noun (rubble, wreckage, scattered remains of something destroyed)
- मलबा noun (litter and discarded refuse)
Hungarian
1 entries- törmelék noun (rubble, wreckage, scattered remains of something destroyed)
Ido
1 entries- eskombro noun (rubble, wreckage, scattered remains of something destroyed)
Indonesian
1 entries- serpihan noun (rubble, wreckage, scattered remains of something destroyed)
Irish
1 entries- smionagar noun (rubble, wreckage, scattered remains of something destroyed)
Italian
4 entries- calcinacci noun (ruins of a broken-down structure)
- macerie noun (rubble, wreckage, scattered remains of something destroyed)
- rovine noun (rubble, wreckage, scattered remains of something destroyed)
- ruderi noun (ruins of a broken-down structure)
Japanese
1 entries- 残骸 noun (rubble, wreckage, scattered remains of something destroyed)
Korean
1 entries- 잔해 noun (rubble, wreckage, scattered remains of something destroyed)
Latin
1 entries- rūdus noun (rubble, wreckage, scattered remains of something destroyed)
Macedonian
1 entries- шут noun (litter and discarded refuse)
Marathi
3 entries- अवशेष noun (rubble, wreckage, scattered remains of something destroyed)
- अवशेष noun (litter and discarded refuse)
- मलवा noun (rubble, wreckage, scattered remains of something destroyed)
Northern Kurdish
1 entries- pirtik noun (rubble, wreckage, scattered remains of something destroyed)
Polish
4 entries- gruz noun (rubble, wreckage, scattered remains of something destroyed)
- gruzy noun (rubble, wreckage, scattered remains of something destroyed)
- morena noun (large rock fragments left by a melting glacier etc.)
- pozostałości noun (litter and discarded refuse)
Portuguese
4 entries- destroços noun (rubble, wreckage, scattered remains of something destroyed)
- detritos noun (rubble, wreckage, scattered remains of something destroyed)
- escombros noun (ruins of a broken-down structure)
- lixo noun (litter and discarded refuse)
Russian
4 entries- лом noun (litter and discarded refuse)
- му́сор noun (litter and discarded refuse)
- обло́мки noun (rubble, wreckage, scattered remains of something destroyed)
- обло́мки noun (litter and discarded refuse)
Scottish Gaelic
3 entries- sprùilleach noun (rubble, wreckage, scattered remains of something destroyed)
- sprùilleach noun (litter and discarded refuse)
- sprùilleach noun (ruins of a broken-down structure)
Sicilian
4 entries- cosi sdirrupati noun (ruins of a broken-down structure)
- lurdìa noun (litter and discarded refuse)
- munnizza noun (litter and discarded refuse)
- ngrasciu noun (litter and discarded refuse)
Spanish
4 entries- basura noun (litter and discarded refuse)
- cachureo noun (litter and discarded refuse)
- detrito noun (rubble, wreckage, scattered remains of something destroyed)
- detritos noun (rubble, wreckage, scattered remains of something destroyed)
Swedish
3 entries- skräp noun (rubble, wreckage, scattered remains of something destroyed)
- skräp noun (litter and discarded refuse)
- sopor noun (litter and discarded refuse)
Turkish
2 entries- enkaz noun (rubble, wreckage, scattered remains of something destroyed)
- yıkıntı noun (ruins of a broken-down structure)
Ukrainian
4 entries- розва́лини noun (rubble, wreckage, scattered remains of something destroyed)
- розва́лини noun (ruins of a broken-down structure)
- руї́ни noun (ruins of a broken-down structure)
- ула́мки noun (rubble, wreckage, scattered remains of something destroyed)
Vietnamese
1 entries- mảnh vụn noun (rubble, wreckage, scattered remains of something destroyed)
Sample sentences
13 total sentences available.
The cupboards were overflowing with the accumulated debris of several years.
Source: tatoeba (1514270)
It's hard to believe that no one was covered by the building's debris in the earthquake this morning.
Source: tatoeba (2792313)
Tom looked through the debris on the floor.
Source: tatoeba (3066894)
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.