rubble

Language: en

🇺🇸 /ˈrʌbəl/

📖 Definitions

  1. noun
    Broken pieces of stone, brick, or other materials that remain after a building or structure has been destroyed or demolished.; Rough, irregular fragments of rock or stone, especially as used in construction or as a natural deposit.; A mass of broken or discarded material; debris in general.; In masonry, rough unhewn stone used in building walls, often set in mortar without regular courses.; In geology, a deposit of angular rock fragments produced by weathering or mechanical breakdown of rock.
  2. verb
    To reduce to rubble; to demolish or destroy a structure so that only broken fragments remain.

🔗 Details

Word forms

uncountable

Collocations

pile of rubblereduce to rubblelie in rubbleclear the rubbleheap of rubble

Derivatives

rubblyrubbleize

Synonyms

debrisruinswreckageremainsdetritusfragments

Commonly confused

ruble
EN: 'Ruble' is a unit of currency (e.g., Russian ruble); 'rubble' refers to broken fragments of stone or brick from a destroyed structure.

Spelling tips

EN: Remember 'rubble' has a double 'b' and ends in '-le'. Do not confuse it with 'ruble' (the currency), which has a single 'b'.

💬 Examples

  1. Rescuers searched through the rubble of the collapsed building for survivors.

  2. The path was covered with loose rubble that made walking difficult.

  3. The old factory was reduced to rubble after the explosion.

  4. The medieval castle walls were constructed from rubble masonry.

  5. The hillside was covered with a layer of rubble from the eroded cliff face.

  6. The earthquake rubbleed entire neighborhoods in a matter of seconds.