rubble
To break down into rubbleTo break down into rubble.
» Tom got trapped under the rubble.
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1 sensesTo break down into rubble.
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. — odexed
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
rubbles, rubbling, rubbled, rubbledLessons for this word
3 lessons- A1Present simple — Because it is a verb
- A1Past simple, regular verbs — Because of its past form
- A2Present perfect: introduction — Because of its past participle