Synonyms for DEBRIS
dəˈbri, ˈdeɪ bri; esp. Brit. ˈdɛb ride·bris

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1. debris, dust, junk, rubble, detritusnoun

   the remains of something that has been destroyed or broken up

   Synonyms:
   detritus, rubble, debris, dust, junk

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1. • Rubbish

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1. List of paraphrases for "debris":

   rubble, wastes, wreckage, waste, scrap, detritus, remnants, wreck, litter, ruins, dirt, leftover, residue

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1. Chief Charles Hood:

   You can call it luck, you can call it blessed, you can call it all of those things, due to the amount of water, the speed, you can imagine crashing along the walls in there with any type of debris and still being able to maintain his breath. It’s an amazing story.

2. Amjad Haqi:

   All they are concerned about is to find the black box and the debris of the plane. That's their problem, not mine, and then they come and talk to us about insurance and compensation. I don't care about compensation, all I care about is to find my mother and bury her.

3. Shankar Lal Saini:

   There was a tower there. When the lightning struck, the tower's wall collapsed, many people were buried under it. Since the fort is on a hill, when the debris was falling and space reduced, some people also fell into a ditch.

4. Robin Robertson:

   It's about the right time for something. It depends on where it went in, but it's about the right time for debris to wash up.

5. Craig Tucker:

   We know the dissolved oxygen in the river plummeted two nights in a row as these pulses of mud hit the main stem of the river, so it is very clear to us that we had a high intensity fire and then we had a flash flooding event kind of come behind the fire and it just rushed ash and debris and mud into the river, virtually everything in the river died.