debris storm

1. 1.

   the sudden spread of dust and debris from a collapsing building

   “the destruction of the building produced an enormous debris surge”

   Synonymsdebris surge

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Questions about debris storm

What does debris storm mean?

debris storm means "the sudden spread of dust and debris from a collapsing building".

What is another word for debris storm?

Close synonyms include debris surge. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is debris storm a common word?

debris storm is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.