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

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Princeton's WordNet2.2 / 10 votes

  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. List of paraphrases for "rubble":

    debris, wreckage, ruins, wreck, recyclable

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#4566dust
#8472junk
#11937debris
#13417ruins
#15547wreck
#28100rubble
#36421recyclable
#37353wreckage
#54111detritus

How to use rubble in a sentence?

  1. Volodymyr Solohub:

    We don't know how many more people might be 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. Nathan Edwards:

    Just to find that picture in the rubble when everything else was ground to dust — I guess it felt like a bit of a sign, from the moment I found it, I wanted to know who the people were, and I really wanted them to be alive.

  4. Reginald Fils-Aime:

    We still have people coming to clinics with mental health problems related to the earthquake. They talk about the earthquake, about being under the rubble.

  5. David Brown:

    Honestly, if I can find anything in the rubble.


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