DEBRIS meaning: Remnants left after destruction occurs

We found 36 dictionaries that define the word debris:

General (26 matching dictionaries)

debris: Merriam-Webster
debris: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
debris: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
debris: Collins English Dictionary
debris: Vocabulary.com
Debris, debris: Wordnik
debris: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
debris: Wiktionary
debris: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
debris (d=E9bris): The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
debris: Infoplease Dictionary
D'ebris, debris: Dictionary.com
debris: Online Etymology Dictionary
debris: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
Debris (DJ), Debris (Keeley Forsyth album), Debris (disambiguation), Debris (play), Debris: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Debris: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
debris: Rhymezone
debris: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
debris: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
debris: FreeDictionary.org
debris: Mnemonic Dictionary
debris: TheFreeDictionary.com
debris: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
debris: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (2 matching dictionaries)

Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
debris: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)

debris: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)

debris: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
online medical dictionary (No longer online)
debris: Medical dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)

Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)

debris: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)

Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (

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

Similar:

rubble, junk, dust, detritus, débris, rubbish, wreckage, ruin, wrack, scree, more...

Opposite:

order, cleanliness, purity, intactness, structure

Types:

trash, garbage, rubbish, waste, litter, discards, refuse, wastage, more...

Phrases:

Debris flow, space debris, food debris, debris avalanche, debris cloud, more...

Adjectives:

other, cellular, organic, necrotic, woody, volcanic, glacial, coarse, loose, much, epithelial

Colors:

gray, brown, dark green, olive, rust, more...