debris
noun
[ ˈdɛbriː ]
• scattered pieces of rubbish or remains.
• "workmen were clearing the roads of the debris from shattered buildings"
Similar:
detritus,
refuse,
waste,
waste matter,
discarded matter,
litter,
scrap,
dross,
chaff,
flotsam and jetsam,
lumber,
rubble,
wreckage,
spoilage,
remains,
remnants,
fragments,
scraps,
dregs,
offscourings,
odds and ends,
slag,
rubbish,
trash,
garbage,
mullock,
dreck,
junk,
grot,
gash,
odds and sods,
gubbins,
debitage,
draff,
raffle,
raff,
cultch,
orts,
shit,
crap,
Origin:
early 18th century: from French débris, from obsolete débriser ‘break down’.
