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 Definitions of Rubble  [ˈrʌb əl or, for]  

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Definition of 'Rubble' Random House Webster's College Dictionary 

1. (n.) rubble
broken bits and pieces of anything, as that which is demolished:
Bombing reduced the town to rubble.

2.  rubble
rough fragments of broken stone, formed by geological processes, in quarrying, etc., and sometimes used in masonry.

Etymology:  (1350–1400; ME rubel, robil, obscurely akin to rubbish)

Definition of 'Rubble' Princeton's WordNet 

1. (noun) debris, dust, junk, rubble, detritus
the remains of something that has been destroyed or broken up


Definition of 'Rubble' Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary 

1. (noun) rubble
broken pieces left on the ground where a building has been destroyed
They searched for survivors in the rubble.


Definition of 'Rubble' Webster Dictionary 

1. (noun) Rubble
water-worn or rough broken stones; broken bricks, etc., used in coarse masonry, or to fill up between the facing courses of walls

2. (noun) Rubble
rough stone as it comes from the quarry; also, a quarryman's term for the upper fragmentary and decomposed portion of a mass of stone; brash

3. (noun) Rubble
a mass or stratum of fragments or rock lying under the alluvium, and derived from the neighboring rock

4. (noun) Rubble
the whole of the bran of wheat before it is sorted into pollard, bran, etc


Translation of 'Rubble' Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary 

Sense: small pieces of stone, brick etc.

Afrikaans flag Afrikaans: rommel, bourommel Arabic flag Arabic: كُسارَة الحِجارَه، دَبْش Bulgarian flag Bulgarian: натрошен камък
Brazilian flag Brazilian: entulho Czech flag Czech: štěrk German flag German: der Schutt
Danish flag Danish: murbrok Greek flag Greek: πετραδάκι Spanish flag Spanish: escombros, cascajo
Estonian flag Estonian: kiviprügi Farsi flag Farsi: خرده سنگ؛ قلوه سنگ Finnish flag Finnish: kivimurska
French flag French: gravats Hebrew flag Hebrew: הֲרִיסוֹת Hindi flag Hindi: छोटे अनगढ़े पत्थर
Croatian flag Croatian: krhotine opeke (kamenja) Hungarian flag Hungarian: kőtörmelék Indonesian flag Indonesian: puing
Icelandic flag Icelandic: grjótmulningur Italian flag Italian: breccia Japanese flag Japanese: かけら
Korean flag Korean: 잡석 Lithuanian flag Lithuanian: plytgaliai, skalda Latvian flag Latvian: šķembas
Malay flag Malay: puing Dutch flag Dutch: steenslag Norwegian flag Norwegian: knust stein, pukk
Polish flag Polish: gruz Persian flag Persian: خرده سنگ؛ قلوه سنگ Pashto flag Pashto: د خښتو او ډبرو ټوټی
Portuguese flag Portuguese: entulho Romanian flag Romanian: moloz Russian flag Russian: щебень
Slovak flag Slovak: štrk Slovenian flag Slovenian: grušč Serbian flag Serbian: šut
Swedish flag Swedish: grus Thai flag Thai: เศษหินเศษปูน Turkish flag Turkish: moloz taşı
Taiwanese flag Taiwanese: 碎石 Ukrainian flag Ukrainian: кругляк; галька Urdu flag Urdu: ٹوٹے ہوءے اینٹ پتھر
Vietnamese flag Vietnamese: viên sỏi Chinese flag Chinese: 碎石

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