English-Italian translations for rubble

• calcinacci
• detriti
  Ma solo il 5 per cento delle macerie detriti è stato rimosso, solo il 15 per cento delle case sono state ricostruite in un modo o nell'altro. But only 5% of the rubble has been cleared, only 15% of houses have been reconstructed in some fashion or other.
  Scavalchiamo rovine, macchine rotte, bruciate, detriti di case crollate, marciapiedi sventrati. We walked through ruins, past smashed up and burnt out cars, the rubble from collapsed houses and smashed pavements.
  Vogliamo rendere il Danubio nuovamente navigabile ripulendo il fiume e il fondo del fiume dai detriti dei ponti distrutti. We want to make the Danube navigable again by clearing the rubble from the damaged bridges, from the river and the riverbed.
• macerie
  Ha ridotto gran parte del Libano in macerie. It has reduced much of Lebanon to rubble.
  Perché soltanto il 5 per cento delle macerie è stato rimosso? Why has only 5% of the rubble been taken away?
  Non si sa assolutamente quanti morti ci siano sotto le macerie a Jenin. It is completely unknown how many dead there are under the rubble in Jenin.

Definition of rubble

• The broken remains of an object, usually rock or masonry
• A mass or stratum of fragments of rock lying under the alluvium and derived from the neighbouring rock
• The whole of the bran of wheat before it is sorted into pollard, bran, etc

Related words

• rubblework
• rubblestone
• rubbles
• rubble pile
• rubble concrete
• rubbles woman
• building rubble
• heap of rubble