different between carrion vs debris

English

Etymology

Old French caroigne (see modern French charogne), from Latin caro (“flesh”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kæ.?i.?n/

Noun

carrion (usually uncountable, plural carrions)

1. (chiefly uncountable) Dead flesh; carcasses.

   • They did eat the dead carrions.

   • 1922, Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room, Vintage Classics, paperback edition, page 119

     Perhaps the Purple Emperor is feasting, as Morris says, upon a mass of putrid carrion at the base of an oak tree.

2. (countable, obsolete, derogatory) A contemptible or worthless person.

Derived terms

• carrion beetle
• carrion crow

Translations

English

Alternative forms

• débris

Etymology

Borrowed from French débris, itself from dé- (“de-”) + bris (“broken, crumbled”), or from Middle French debriser (“to break apart”), from Old French debrisier, itself from de- + brisier (“to break apart, shatter, bust”), from Frankish *bristijan, *bristan, *brestan (“to break violently, shatter, bust”), from Proto-Germanic *brestan? (“to break, burst”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?rest- (“to separate, burst”). Cognate with Old High German bristan (“to break asunder, burst”), Old English berstan (“to break, shatter, burst”). More at burst.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?d?b?i?/, /?de?b?i?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /d??b?i?/

Noun

debris (uncountable)

1. Rubble, wreckage, scattered remains of something destroyed.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:debris
2. Litter and discarded refuse.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:trash
3. The ruins of a broken-down structure.
4. (geology) Large rock fragments left by a melting glacier etc.

Translations

Anagrams

• Brides, biders, birdes, brides, rebids, sibred