rubble
The broken remains of an object, usually rock or masonryThe broken remains of an object, usually rock or masonry.
» Tom got trapped under the rubble.
Meaning
3 senses(countable, uncountable)The broken remains of an object, usually rock or masonry.
Schutt
обло́мкиoblómki, ще́беньščébenʹ
ула́мкиulámky, ще́біньščébinʹ
the remains of something that has been destroyed or broken up
(countable, uncountable)A mass or stratum of fragments of rock lying under the alluvium and derived from the neighbouring rock.
(UK, countable, dialectal, in the plural, uncountable)The whole of the bran of wheat before it is sorted into pollard, bran, etc.
Examples
30 sentencesTom got trapped under the rubble.
Rescue workers searched through the rubble.
Many people are still buried under the rubble.
The building was reduced to rubble.
Stalingrad was completely reduced to rubble.
ruСталинград был полностью превращён в руины.
Translations
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Origin
Inherited from Middle English rouble, rubel, robel, robeil, from Anglo-Norman *robel (“bitInherited from Middle English rouble, rubel, robel, robeil, from Anglo-Norman *robel (“bits of broken stone”). Presumably related to rubbish, originally of same meaning (waste material, bits of stone, rubble). Ultimately presumably from Old Norse rubba (“to huddle, crowd together, heap up", possibly also "to rub, scrape”), from Proto-Germanic *rubbōną (“to rub, scrape”), related to Proto-Germanic *reufaną (“to tear”), *raubōną (“to rob, steal, plunder”), perhaps via Old French robe (English rob (“steal”)) in sense of “plunder, destroy”; see also Middle English, Middle French -el.
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Forms
plural: rubblesSynonyms
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1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable