debris

  • 61debris-avalanche — “+| noun : a mass of rock fragments and soil that has moved rapidly down a steep mountain slope or hillside and because of its high water content has behaved like an avalanche of snow compare debris slide …

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  • 62debris cone — noun : a mound of ice on a glacier protected by an isolated patch of fine rock debris from the more rapid melting that has lowered the surrounding surface …

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  • 63debris-slide — ˌslīd noun : a mass of predominantly unconsolidated and incoherent soil and rock fragments that has slid or rolled rapidly down a steep slope when comparatively dry to form an irregular hummocky deposit compare debris avalanche …

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  • 64debris — noun /ˈdɛbɹiː,dəˈbɹiː/ a) Rubble, wreckage, scattered remains of something destroyed. b) Litter and discarded refuse …

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  • 65debris —   any fragmented rock material i.e. that produced by weathering or erosion …

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  • 66debris —    1. Any material found to have been washed into a cave from some other locality.    2. Coarse rock fragments resulting from erosion and disintegration of bedrock [16] …

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  • 67debris — Synonyms and related words: afterglow, afterimage, alluvion, alluvium, balance, breccia, butt, butt end, candle ends, chaff, clamjamfry, deposit, detritus, diluvium, dregs, drift, dross, dust, end, fag end, filings, fossil, garbage, grain,… …

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  • 68Débris — Vragstumper, rester, skår …

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  • 69debris — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. rubbish, rubble, detritus, wreckage, ruins, trash. See remainder, part. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. rubble, detritus, ruins, wreckage; see trash 1 , wreck 2 . III (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) n. rubble,… …

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  • 70debris — de|bris [ də bri ] noun uncount the broken pieces that are left when something large has been destroyed, especially by an explosion, fire, or accident a. garbage or pieces of useless material that make a place messy …

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