Definitions for rubble

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rubble rub·ble

Spelling: [ruhb-uh l or for 3, 4, roo-b Rubble is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 63 anagrams from letters in rubble (bbelru).

Definitions for rubble

noun

1. broken bits and pieces of anything, as that which is demolished:
2. any solid substance, as ice, in irregularly broken pieces.
3. rough fragments of broken stone, formed by geological processes, in quarrying, etc., and sometimes used in masonry.
4. masonry built of rough fragments of broken stone.

Origin of rubble

1350-1400; Middle English rubel, robil rubbish

Examples for rubble

Why was she stumbling about amongst the rubble and catching her dress in brambles and burrs?

Within 10 seconds, his target vanishes in a muted cloud of smoke and rubble 7,000 miles away.

Only bleak, black and gray hills of rock and rubble were there, no cars, no life.

Pages from the Quran fluttered in the air before landing gently on the rubble.

They broke off into groups of a dozen and got to work collecting bricks and salvageable materials from the rubble.

Where there had been shops and hotels, there were now heaps of rubble and calcined bricks.

Into it he dropped the ring, covering it again with all the leafy "rubble and wreck" of the wood.

If we enter with hammer in hand, we may leave with merely dust and rubble on our faces.

He could have been lying in the rubble of that alley for an hour—or a second.

And there are a few nice things buried beneath the rubble that I could use in my apartment.