Synonyms for rubble
ˈrʌb əl or, for 3,4 , ˈru bəlrub·ble

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1. debris, dust, junk, rubble, detritusnoun

   the remains of something that has been destroyed or broken up

   Synonyms:
   detritus, debris, dust, junk

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1. • Rubbish

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1. List of paraphrases for "rubble":

   debris, wreckage, ruins, wreck, recyclable

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1. Mesut Hancer:

   My mother, my two older brothers, my sister-in-law and her little daughter. There were seven people including my daughter. They were all under the rubble.

2. Gerard Steijn:

   In disasters, you have piles and piles of rubble, and the rubble is waste. If you are rich, you buy more bricks and rebuild your home, but what happens if you are poor ? In disasters it is the poorest people who live in the weakest houses and they loose their homes first. I thought, what if you recycled the rubble to build back better homes for poor people ?

3. Texas Sen. Ted Cruz:

   So, we're not taking out the oil fields. We're not taking out, for example, we saw a recent report about jihadist university, where they're training jihadists. Why isn't that building rubble? we're not using overwhelming airpower.

4. Bill Coxwell:

   I found it in the rubble and I thought it was fitting to put it up. It feels like we’ve been through a war.

5. Rownak Khan:

   The earthquake has caused unimaginable destruction, hospitals are overflowing, water is scarce, bodies are still buried under the rubble and people are still sleeping in the open. This is a perfect breeding ground for disease.