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Debris: Created by J.H. Wyman. With Jonathan Tucker, Riann Steele, Norbert Leo Butz, Scroobius Pip. Two agents from two different continents and two different mindsets, must work together to investigate when wreckage from a destroyed alien spacecraft has mysterious effects on humankind.
broken or torn pieces left from the destruction of something larger: After the tornado, debris from damaged trees and houses littered the town. (Definition of debris from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press) Examples of debris.
The meaning of DEBRIS is the remains of something broken down or destroyed. How to use debris in a sentence.
Debris (UK: / ˈ d ɛ b r iː, ˈ d eɪ b r iː /, US: / d ə ˈ b r iː /) is rubble, wreckage, ruins, litter and discarded garbage/refuse/trash, scattered remains of something destroyed, or, as in geology, large rock fragments left by a melting glacier, etc. Depending on context, debris can refer to a number of different things.
Debris definition: the remains of anything broken down or destroyed; ruins; rubble. See examples of DEBRIS used in a sentence.
Debris is trash scattered around after a disaster, like shattered glass on the road after a car accident. Debris comes from French for "waste, rubbish."
noun. /ˈdebriː/, /ˈdeɪbriː/ /dəˈbriː/ [uncountable] pieces of wood, metal, building materials, etc. that are left after something has been destroyed. Emergency teams are still clearing the debris from the plane crash. Several people were injured by flying debris in the explosion. Extra Examples. Oxford Collocations Dictionary. Join us.
broken or torn pieces left from the destruction of something larger: After the tornado, debris from damaged trees and houses littered the town. (Definition of debris from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press) Examples of debris.
Debris is pieces from something that has been destroyed or pieces of rubbish or unwanted material that are spread around. I watched the rescue workers sifting through the debris. A number of people were killed by flying debris.
Debris Definition. Rough, broken bits and pieces of stone, wood, glass, etc., as after destruction; rubble. Bits and pieces of rubbish; litter. A heap of rock fragments, as that deposited by a glacier. The fragmented remains of dead or damaged cells or tissue. The ruins of a broken-down structure.
