noun
rubble
RUHB-uhl
noun
1
Broken fragments of stone, brick, or masonry, especially from a collapsed or demolished building.
"Rescue workers searched through the rubble after the earthquake."
How to Use Rubble
Learner’s notesIn plain EnglishThe broken chunks of stone or brick left when a building or structure is destroyed.
Common pairings
pile of rubble
reduced to rubble
buried under rubble
Word Forms
rubbled past tense, rubbles plural, rubbles singular
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Etymology
From Middle English rouble, likely related to "rubbish" and ultimately to an Old Norse word for scraping or piling up debris.