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Definition debris

Etymology

Borrowed from French débris, itself from dé- (“de-”) + bris (“broken, crumbled”), or from Middle French debriser (“to break apart”), from Old French debrisier, itself from de- + brisier (“to break apart, shatter, bust”), from Frankish *bristijan, *bristan, *brestan (“to break violently, shatter, bust”), from Proto-Germanic *brestan? (“to break, burst”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?rest- (“to separate, burst”). Cognate with Old High German bristan (“to break asunder, burst”), Old English berstan (“to break, shatter, burst”). More at burst.

Noun

debris (countable and uncountable, plural debris)

1. Rubble, wreckage, scattered remains of something destroyed.
2. Litter and discarded refuse.
3. The ruins of a broken-down structure
4. (geology) Large rock fragments left by a melting glacier etc.

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