There is a large pile of rubble where the school building used to be.
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Rubble
//ˈɹʌb.əl//
Synonyms for "rubble" (63 found)
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Closest matches (13)
Strong matches (19)
Related words (31)
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1 entriesRelated terms
1 entriesderived
9 entriesetymologically related_to
2 entrieshas context
3 entriesrelated to
19 entriesShowing 16 of 19 words.
Translations
64 translations across 38 languages.
Arabic
2 entries- أَنْقَاض noun (the broken remains of an object, usually rock or masonry)
- رُكام noun (the broken remains of an object, usually rock or masonry)
Basque
1 entries- zabor noun (the broken remains of an object, usually rock or masonry)
Belarusian
4 entries- абло́мкі noun (the broken remains of an object, usually rock or masonry)
- адло́мкі noun (the broken remains of an object, usually rock or masonry)
- друз noun (the broken remains of an object, usually rock or masonry)
- шчэ́бень noun (the broken remains of an object, usually rock or masonry)
Bikol Central
1 entries- ragpa noun (the broken remains of an object, usually rock or masonry)
Breton
1 entries- dismantr noun (the broken remains of an object, usually rock or masonry)
Bulgarian
1 entries- отло́мки noun (the broken remains of an object, usually rock or masonry)
Catalan
1 entries- reble noun (the broken remains of an object, usually rock or masonry)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 瓦礫 /瓦砾 noun (the broken remains of an object, usually rock or masonry)
- 碎石 noun (the broken remains of an object, usually rock or masonry)
Czech
1 entries- suť noun (the broken remains of an object, usually rock or masonry)
Dutch
1 entries- puin noun (the broken remains of an object, usually rock or masonry)
Esperanto
2 entries- rubo noun (the broken remains of an object, usually rock or masonry)
- ŝtonetaro noun (the broken remains of an object, usually rock or masonry)
Estonian
3 entries- killustik noun (the broken remains of an object, usually rock or masonry)
- kiviprügi noun (the broken remains of an object, usually rock or masonry)
- klibu noun (the broken remains of an object, usually rock or masonry)
Finnish
1 entries- rauniot noun (the broken remains of an object, usually rock or masonry)
French
3 entries- débris noun (the broken remains of an object, usually rock or masonry)
- décombres noun (the broken remains of an object, usually rock or masonry)
- gravats noun (the broken remains of an object, usually rock or masonry)
Galician
4 entries- cascabullo noun (the broken remains of an object, usually rock or masonry)
- entullo noun (the broken remains of an object, usually rock or masonry)
- reblo noun (the broken remains of an object, usually rock or masonry)
- rebo noun (the broken remains of an object, usually rock or masonry)
German
1 entries- Schutt noun (the broken remains of an object, usually rock or masonry)
Hungarian
2 entries- sitt noun (the broken remains of an object, usually rock or masonry)
- törmelék noun (the broken remains of an object, usually rock or masonry)
Icelandic
1 entries- rústir noun (the broken remains of an object, usually rock or masonry)
Ido
2 entries- eskombro noun (the broken remains of an object, usually rock or masonry)
- exkavuro noun (the broken remains of an object, usually rock or masonry)
Indonesian
1 entries- puing noun (the broken remains of an object, usually rock or masonry)
Italian
3 entries- calcinacci noun (the broken remains of an object, usually rock or masonry)
- detriti noun (the broken remains of an object, usually rock or masonry)
- macerie noun (the broken remains of an object, usually rock or masonry)
Japanese
1 entries- 瓦礫 noun (the broken remains of an object, usually rock or masonry)
Korean
2 entries- 와력 noun (the broken remains of an object, usually rock or masonry)
- 파편 noun (the broken remains of an object, usually rock or masonry)
Latin
2 entries- rūdus noun (the broken remains of an object, usually rock or masonry)
- strāgēs noun (the broken remains of an object, usually rock or masonry)
Lithuanian
1 entries- griuvėsiai noun (the broken remains of an object, usually rock or masonry)
Malay
1 entries- puing noun (the broken remains of an object, usually rock or masonry)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- مولوز noun (the broken remains of an object, usually rock or masonry)
Polish
1 entries- rumowisko noun (the broken remains of an object, usually rock or masonry)
Portuguese
2 entries- entulho noun (the broken remains of an object, usually rock or masonry)
- escombros noun (the broken remains of an object, usually rock or masonry)
Romanian
2 entries- dărâmătură noun (the broken remains of an object, usually rock or masonry)
- moloz noun (the broken remains of an object, usually rock or masonry)
Russian
2 entries- обло́мки noun (the broken remains of an object, usually rock or masonry)
- ще́бень noun (the broken remains of an object, usually rock or masonry)
Spanish
3 entries- desmonte noun (the broken remains of an object, usually rock or masonry)
- escombra noun (the broken remains of an object, usually rock or masonry)
- escombros noun (the broken remains of an object, usually rock or masonry)
Swahili
1 entries- fusi noun (the broken remains of an object, usually rock or masonry)
Swedish
1 entries- bråte noun (the broken remains of an object, usually rock or masonry)
Talysh
1 entries- گیلی noun (the broken remains of an object, usually rock or masonry)
Tibetan
1 entries- རྡོ་ཧྲུག noun (the broken remains of an object, usually rock or masonry)
Turkish
1 entries- moloz noun (the broken remains of an object, usually rock or masonry)
Ukrainian
2 entries- ула́мки noun (the broken remains of an object, usually rock or masonry)
- ще́бінь noun (the broken remains of an object, usually rock or masonry)
Sample sentences
14 total sentences available.
There is a pile of rubble where the building used to be.
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The building was reduced to rubble.
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During World War II, many famous landmarks in Europe were reduced to rubble.
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