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a
: broken fragments (as of rock) resulting from the decay or destruction of a building
fortifications knocked into rubble—
C. S. Forester
C. S. Forester
b
: a miscellaneous confused mass or group of usually broken or worthless things
2
: waterworn or rough broken stones or bricks used in coarse masonry or in filling courses of walls
3
: rough stone as it comes from the quarry
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Noun
Rescue workers managed to pull two injured people out of the rubble.
The earthquake reduced the whole town to rubble.
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Freddie Clayton, NBC News, 10 Nov. 2024
Case closed, with what’s left of Sofia’s car and Sal Maroni’s whole corpse lying in the rubble for good measure.
—Andy Andersen, Vulture, 10 Nov. 2024
Mick Krever, CNN, 24 Oct. 2024
Hundreds of thousands of people are crammed into tent camps along the coast after entire neighborhoods in many areas were pounded to rubble.
—Wafaa Shurafa, Los Angeles Times, 24 Oct. 2024
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Noun
The lime in the rubble left behind after artillery bombardments helped fertilize the plants, which flourished across Belgium and northern France during the war, then largely disappeared once the lime was gone.
—Freddie Clayton, NBC News, 10 Nov. 2024
Case closed, with what’s left of Sofia’s car and Sal Maroni’s whole corpse lying in the rubble for good measure.
—Andy Andersen, Vulture, 10 Nov. 2024
Verb
Flattened in a year: How Israeli bombardment reduced most of Gaza to rubble
In March, the Israeli military laid siege to that medical complex for a third time, alleging that Hamas was using it as a command center – something that Hamas denied.
—Mick Krever, CNN, 24 Oct. 2024
Hundreds of thousands of people are crammed into tent camps along the coast after entire neighborhoods in many areas were pounded to rubble.
—Wafaa Shurafa, Los Angeles Times, 24 Oct. 2024
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“Rubble.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/rubble. Accessed 1 Dec. 2024.
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