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rubble

The broken remains of an object, usually rock or masonry.

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#1·Apr 27, 2026UK

The broken remains of an object, usually rock or masonry.

Origin: , from . Presumably related to rubbish, originally of same meaning . Ultimately presumably from , from , related to , *raubōną, perhaps via (English steal) in sense of “plunder, destroy”; see also Middle English, Middle French -el. Origin information sourced from Wiktionary contributors (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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#2·Apr 27, 2026UK

(geology) A mass or stratum of fragments of rock lying under the alluvium and derived from the neighbouring rock.

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  • “"modernizing" a pile of rubble? US tax payers should NOT fund this vanity project.”

    — Bluesky· May 2026
  • “Seriously? If that’s what you want to believe. And Gaza wasn’t a pile of rubble while Biden was still there.”

    — Bluesky· May 2026
  • “Rubble from Trump ballroom dumped at DC golf course has toxic metals, data shows - The Guardian”

    — Bluesky· May 2026
  • “The mob boss in the White House dumped toxic rubble on a public DC golf course he wants to seize for himself: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...”

    — Bluesky· May 2026
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#3·Apr 27, 2026UK

(UK, dialect, in the plural) The whole of the bran of wheat before it is sorted into pollard, bran, etc.

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  • “be the alien mother ship* that you want to see in the world *reducing a certain building to rubble”

    — Bluesky· May 2026
  • “A Russian Shahed drone hit a kindergarten in central Sumy this morning. Then a second one hit the same building. Rescuers are pulling people from the rubble. Two injured so far. 📹 Suspilen Sumy”

    — Bluesky· May 2026
  • “Shoutout to those who pick up the rubble, cure, repair, defend, create and teach things that are good for others. We need more of those people in this world.”

    — Bluesky· May 2026
  • “Skeletons in their clothing: Recovering bodies from the rubble in Gaza https://www.npr.org/2026/05/06/nx-s1...”

    — Bluesky· May 2026
  • “[NPR] SKELETONS IN THEIR CLOTHING: RECOVERING BODIES FROM THE RUBBLE IN GAZA”

    — Bluesky· May 2026
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