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debris These are words often used in combination with debris. Click on a collocation to see more examples of it.
Debris: Created by J.H. Wyman. With Jonathan Tucker, Riann Steele, Norbert Leo Butz, Scroobius Pip. Two agents from two different continents and two different mindsets, must work together to investigate when wreckage from a destroyed alien spacecraft has mysterious effects on humankind.
The meaning of DEBRIS is the remains of something broken down or destroyed. How to use debris in a sentence.
Debris (UK: / ˈ d ɛ b r iː, ˈ d eɪ b r iː /, US: / d ə ˈ b r iː /) is rubble, wreckage, ruins, litter and discarded garbage/refuse/trash, scattered remains of something destroyed, or, as in geology, large rock fragments left by a melting glacier, etc. Depending on context, debris can refer to a number of different things.
One of the difficulties is how to distinguish tsunami debris from regular ocean trash, which is a growing issue in its own right. From Reuters The adult children cleaning out their parents' debris bring much of it home with them.
Debris definition: the remains of anything broken down or destroyed; ruins; rubble. See examples of DEBRIS used in a sentence.
debris. noun [ U ] uk / ˈdebriː / us / dəˈbriː /. Add to word list. Add to word list. broken pieces of something: Debris from the aircraft was scattered over a wide area. (Definition of debris from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
