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How to pronounce debris in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms detritus, dust, junk, rubble
Type of rubbish, scrap, trash
Has types slack

Examples of debris

debris
The bag is 23 inches deep and will hold more than five gallons of garden debris.
From the dailyherald.com
Some 19,000 tons of contaminated soil and debris were removed from the property.
From the thenewstribune.com
Giant tractors and dump trucks cleared roads and sorted debris into giant piles.
From the tennessean.com
The city's main roads are back open and crews are moving in to clear the debris.
From the abcnews.go.com
The weather conditions could help debris escaping from a fire to spread rapidly.
From the post-gazette.com
The crowd screamed, freaked out and tried to flee amid the debris as instructed.
From the post-gazette.com
Anyone planting plane debris at the site afterwards would surely have been seen.
From the smh.com.au
Paper, maps and plane debris littered the fuel-soaked site, Mr Cruickshank said.
From the odt.co.nz
I also believe that there can be psychic debris left after a toxic relationship.
From the theepochtimes.com
More examples
  • The remains of something that has been destroyed or broken up
  • Debris is rubble, wreckage, ruins, litter and discarded garbage/refuse/trash, scattered remains of something destroyed, or, in geology, large rock fragments left by a melting glacier etc. The singular form of debris is debris. Depending on context, debris can refer to a number of different things.
  • Debris is the debut album by electro-industrial project Ayria. It was released in 2003, along with a deluxe edition featuring a bonus disc and alternate packaging.
  • Debris by Dennis Kelly was produced first at Theatre 503 in London in 2003 before it transferred to Battersea Arts Centre the next year.
  • Debri is an ethnic minority of South Kurdufan in Sudan. It speaks Dilling, which is a language belonging to the Nubian branch of the Nilo-Saharan languages. Debri is an ethnic group of several thousands.
  • Alternative spelling of debris
  • Any solid material exceeding a 60 mm particle size that is intended for disposal and that is a manufactured object, or plant or animal matter, or natural geologic material.
  • The fragments of something that has been destroyed. Debris is a broader term than rubble, which means the stone and brick fragments.
  • Soft foreign matter attached loosely to the tooth