debris surge

1. 1.

   the sudden spread of dust and debris from a collapsing building

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

   Synonymsdebris storm

   Broaderrush

Questions about debris surge

What does debris surge mean?

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

What is another word for debris surge?

Close synonyms include debris storm. 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 surge a common word?

debris surge 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.