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# rubble

«rubble» in Mova's school dictionary: **Broken pieces of stone, brick and concrete left when a…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (rubble — uncountable)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Broken pieces of stone, brick and concrete left when a building falls down or is knocked down. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rubble/#m1)

2) Rough broken stones used to fill gaps or make a base for a path or wall. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rubble/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In news and history (earthquakes, wars, bombing in the Blitz), rubble shows destruction; rescuers search the rubble for survivors. In building, rubble is used as hardcore under paths. Phrases: «reduced to rubble», «pile of rubble», «search the rubble», «buried under rubble».

### examples

- After the earthquake, houses were reduced to rubble. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rubble/#x1)
- Rescuers dug through the rubble to find survivors. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rubble/#x2)
- The old factory is now just a pile of rubble. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rubble/#x3)
- During the war, many cities were full of rubble. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rubble/#x4)
- Builders used rubble to fill the hole. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rubble/#x5)
- The dog sniffed the rubble for people trapped inside. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rubble/#x6)

### note

Uncountable: «a pile of rubble», not «a rubble». Safety: never play on building sites or in rubble; it can collapse. Similar: debris, wreckage, ruins.

### In the corpora

- [Rescue dogs can smell a person buried under snow or rubble and can search an area much faster than a line of people.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/196-working-dogs-guide-sniffer-sheep-rescue-and-helper-dogs/8/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «rubble» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rubble/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.