different between debris vs leavings

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

English

Etymology

Participial form of "leave".

Noun

leavings pl (plural only)

1. A worthless and incidental residuum, such as scraps from a meal, or shavings or sawdust from wood.

   The leavings were thrown to the dogs.

   The poor survive on the leavings of the rich and wasteful.

Translations

Anagrams

• Svengali, sleaving, svengali