broken stones or bricks from a building or wall that has been destroyed or damagedThe bomb reduced the houses to rubble.There were piles of rubble everywhere.Wordfinderconstructioncement,construction,foundation,girder,joist,masonry,plaster,rubble,scaffolding,siteOxford Collocations Dictionaryadjectivebuilding… of rubbleheap,pileverb + rubblebe reduced to,clear,clear away,…prepositionamid the rubble ,among the rubble ,beneath the rubble ,…Seefull entrySee related entries:ConstructionWord Originlate Middle English: perhaps from an Anglo-Norman French alteration of Old French robe ‘spoils’; compare with rubbish.Extra examplesPolice sifted through the rubble looking for clues.Rescue workers are searching the rubble for survivors.Several people were trapped in the rubble.She stood among the rubble left by the earthquake.The school was reduced to rubble.What was once a cottage was now a crumbling heap of rubble.A bomb had reduced the house next door to rubble.The end of the alley was blocked by a heap of rubble and twisted metal.
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