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語源

Borrowed from French débris, itself from dé- (“de-”) + bris (“broken, crumbled”), or from Middle French debriser (“to break apart”), from Old French debrisier, itself from de- + brisier (“to break apart, shatter, bust”), from Frankish *bristijan, *bristan, *brestan (“to break violently, shatter, bust”), from Proto-Germanic *brestaną (“to break, burst”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrest- (“to separate, burst”). Cognate with Old High German bristan (“to break asunder, burst”), 古期英語 berstan (“to break, shatter, burst”), German bersten (“to burst”). More at burst.

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ˈdɛbɹi/, /ˈdeɪbɹi/
• (米国発音, General Australian, New Zealand) IPA: /dəˈbɹiː/
• 韻: -ɛbɹi, -iː
• ハイフネーション: de‧bris

名詞

debris (uncountable)

1. Rubble, wreckage, scattered remains of something destroyed.

   Synonyms: detritus; see also Thesaurus:debris

   • 2012 December 21, David M. Halbfinger, Charles V. Bagli, Sarah Maslin Nir, “On Ravaged Coastline, It’s Rebuild Deliberately vs. Rebuild Now”, in The New York Times‎:

     His neighbors were still ripping out debris. But Mr. Ryan, a retired bricklayer who built his house by hand 30 years ago only to lose most of it to Hurricane Sandy, was already hard at work rebuilding.

   • 2022 January 12, Benedict le Vay, “The heroes of Soham...”, in RAIL‎, number 948, archived from the original on 21 December 2020, page 43:

     But signalman Bridges was never to answer driver Gimbert's desperate question. A deafening, massive blast blew the wagon to shreds, the 44 high-explosive bombs exploding like simultaneous hits from the aircraft they should have been dropped from. The station was instantly reduced to bits of debris, and the line to a huge crater.

   • 2023 January 16, “California’s flooding, in pictures”, in CNN‎, archived from the original on 17 March 2023:

     Melissa Foley clears debris in her neighborhood as the San Lorenzo River rises in Felton on Saturday, January 14.

2. Litter and discarded refuse.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:trash

   • 2013 July 20, “Welcome to the plastisphere”, in The Economist‎, volume 408, number 8845, archived from the original on 8 March 2023:

     [The researchers] noticed many of their pieces of [plastic marine] debris sported surface pits around two microns across. Such pits are about the size of a bacterial cell. Closer examination showed that some of these pits did, indeed, contain bacteria, […].

3. (geology) Large rock fragments left by a melting glacier etc.

派生語

アナグラム

• B-sider, Brides, biders, birdes, brides, rebids, sibred