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countable and uncountable, plural rubbles
The broken remains of an object, usually rock or masonry. quotations examples
The old boulevard now was a sagging ruin, waiting for the wreckers. … You'd have to loathe yourself vividly to be indifferent to such destruction or, worse, rejoice at the crushing of the locus of these middle-class settlements, glad that history had made rubble of them.
1976 September, Saul Bellow, Humboldt’s Gift, New York, N.Y.: Avon Books, page 72
Floods in northern India, mostly in the small state of Uttarakhand, have wrought disaster on an enormous scale. […] Rock-filled torrents smashed vehicles and homes, burying victims under rubble and sludge.
2013 June 29, “High and wet”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, page 28
(geology) A mass or stratum of fragments of rock lying under the alluvium and derived from the neighbouring rock. quotations
The overlying beds are composed of such calcareous rubble and flints, rudely stratified
1855, Sir Charles Lyell, A Manual of Elementary Geology
(UK, dialect, in the plural) The whole of the bran of wheat before it is sorted into pollard, bran, etc.. examples