debris
Ruin's scattered remnants
Debris is scattered fragments or remains, especially from something destroyed or discarded.
After a storm, debris litters the streets—fallen branches, broken glass, torn shingles.
The word applies to wreckage of any kind: rescue workers searched through the debris, space debris orbits Earth.
It can also describe accumulated refuse or rubbish: Clear the debris from the yard.
Destroyed vessel at sea
- airplanePowered flying machine
- crashSudden violent impact
- flotsamDebris from wrecked vessels
- jetsamGoods deliberately discarded at sea
collision · sunken · derelict · wreck · shattered · splintered · catastrophe · disaster
Fired clay building units
- concreteSolid building mixture
- masonryBuilding with mortared blocks
- stonesSmall hard earth fragments
- ruinsDecayed structural remains
demolition · collapse · earthquake · crumbled · shattered · broken · boulders · gravel
Discarded worthless material
- garbageDiscarded waste material
- refuseReject or garbage
- junkWorthless discarded items
- wasteUnwanted discarded material
discarded · scattered · roadside · plastic · bottles · wrappers · pollution · cleanup
Space debris reaching Earth
- asteroidSun-orbiting rocky mass
- cometIcy orbiting body
- orbitalRevolving around another
- satelliteOrbiting celestial body
space junk · micrometeorite · impact · crater · atmosphere · reentry · fragments · interplanetary
shipwreck
Destroyed vessel at sea
jetsam · collision · sunken · derelict · wreck · shattered · splintered · catastrophe · disaster · scattered
bricks
Fired clay building units
ruins · demolition · collapse · earthquake · crumbled · shattered · broken · boulders · gravel · pile
trash
Discarded worthless material
waste · discarded · scattered · roadside · plastic · bottles · wrappers · pollution · cleanup · windblown
meteorite
Space debris reaching Earth
satellite · space junk · micrometeorite · impact · crater · atmosphere · reentry · fragments · interplanetary · meteor shower
obstacle
Something blocking the way
- blockageObstruction halting movement
- obstructionSomething blocking the way
- dangerExposure to harm
collision · contamination · cleanup · removal · clearing · avalanche · landslide · spill · choking · entanglement
leaves
Tree's photosynthetic organs
storm · driftwood · organic · vegetation · deadfall · windfall · forest · garden · yard · mulch
- construction sitehard hat, hard hats, foreman, cones, cranes
- demolitiondemolish, raze, bulldoze, controlled demolition, wreck
- sanitationsewage, sewers, cleaning, sewer, disinfecting
- space explorationrockets, Saturn V, satellites, mission, Falcon Heavy
- Tornadoestornado, twister, funnel cloud, funnel, vortex
- blockagesblockage, dam, clog, congestion, drain clog
debriswhole
Full and undivided
edifice · structure · construction · undamaged · complete
debriscleanliness
Absence of dirt
neatness · tidiness · order · purity · spotlessness
- debris fieldArea of scattered remnants
- space debrisArtificial objects orbiting Earth
- plastic debrisDiscarded synthetic material waste
- flying debrisObjects hurled through air
- storm debris
- falling debrisObjects dropping from height