Synonyms for DEBRIS
dəˈbri, ˈdeɪ bri; esp. Brit. ˈdɛb ride·bris

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1. debris, dust, junk, rubble, detritusnoun

   the remains of something that has been destroyed or broken up

   Synonyms:
   detritus, rubble, debris, dust, junk

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1. • Rubbish

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1. List of paraphrases for "debris":

   rubble, wastes, wreckage, waste, scrap, detritus, remnants, wreck, litter, ruins, dirt, leftover, residue

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1. National Weather Service:

   This is a dangerous situation. Persons within the Camp Fire Burn Area need to be alert for the potential of mud and debris flows. These flows could impact area roadways, hill sides, and local streams and creeks, if you observe movement of soils, debris, or large amounts of water, you should move to higher ground immediately. Do not drive through water flowing across roadways.

2. Dara Haas:

   The sounds were loud and there were just a lot of them, you could smell the sulfur from the guns and debris was flying across the room and the students were crying.

3. Carl Melford:

   After a fire, depending on the intensity of the burn, it causes the soil to be hydrophobic. The majority of this burn was a moderate severity burn, so that does cause hydrophobic soil and then also after the fire, there's a lot of debris and that tends to be a lot of the problem when that's moving downstream.

4. Roger Thompson:

   For most objects in space, there's nobody controlling The USAF system, there's somewhere between 22,000 and 24,000 pieces of debris being tracked by [ the US military ], but it doesn't see all of them, and it doesn't see all of them all the time.

5. Police Chief Art Acevedo:

   Look for any debris, any body parts, anything that may be related.