Rubble vs Refuse - What's the difference?
rubble | refuse |
The broken remains of an object, usually rock or masonry.
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, title= (geology) A mass or stratum of fragments of rock lying under the alluvium and derived from the neighbouring rock.
(UK, dialect, in the plural) The whole of the bran of wheat before it is sorted into pollard, bran, etc.
(UK) Collectively, items or material that have been discarded; rubbish, garbage.
To decline (a request or demand).
* Bible, Isa. i. 20
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To decline a request or demand, forbear; to withhold permission.
(military) To throw back, or cause to keep back (as the centre, a wing, or a flank), out of the regular alignment when troops are about to engage the enemy.
(obsolete) To disown.
* Shakespeare
As a noun rubble
is the broken remains of an object, usually rock or masonry.As a verb refuse is
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English
Noun
High and wet, passage=Floods in northern India, mostly in the small state of Uttarakhand, have wrought disaster on an enormous scale.
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Derived terms
* reduce to rubble * rubblestone * rubbleworkReferences
Anagrams
* *refuse
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Noun
(-)Synonyms
* discards * garbage (US ) * rubbish (UK ) * trash (US ) * See alsoEtymology 2
From (etyl) refuser, from .Verb
(refus)- My request for a pay rise was refused .
- I refuse to listen to this nonsense any more.
- If ye refuse ye shall be devoured with the sword.
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- I asked the star if I could have her autograph, but she refused .
- to refuse the right wing while the left wing attacks
- Refuse thy name.