Rubble



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• n. ( 一堆) 碎石, 瓦砾
• ［英］ n. ( 一堆) 碎石, 瓦砾 ( rough and loose fragments of rock, or debris from buildings)
• ［例］ a building reduced to rubble by bombing

Webster Collegiate

I. noun

• Etymology: Middle English robyl
• Date: 14th century
• 1.
  • a. broken fragments (as of rock) resulting from the decay or destruction of a building <fortifications knocked into rubble — C. S. Forester>
  • b. a miscellaneous confused mass or group of usually broken or worthless things
• 2. waterworn or rough broken stones or bricks used in coarse masonry or in filling courses of walls
• 3. rough stone as it comes from the quarry

II. transitive verb (rubbled; rubbling)

• Date: 1926
• to reduce to rubble

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