Another word for ruins
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- Loose fragments or grains that have been worn away from rock.
- Disintegrated or eroded matter; debris:
- A loose mass of angular fragments of rock or masonry crumbled by natural or human forces.
- Irregular fragments or pieces of rock used in masonry.
- The masonry made with such rocks.
- The act of destroying or the state of being destroyed; destruction:
- Accidental destruction of a ship; a shipwreck.
- The stranded hulk of a severely damaged ship.
- The remainder of something after removal of parts or a part.
- Matter remaining after completion of an abstractive chemical or physical process, such as evaporation, combustion, distillation, or filtration; residuum.
- The part of a monomer or other chemical unit that has been incorporated into a polymer or large molecule.
- plural form of relic
- plural form of remnant
- plural form of vestige
- The debris or remains of something wrecked:
- The scattered remains of something broken or destroyed; rubble or wreckage.
- Carelessly discarded refuse; litter.
- An accumulation of relatively large rock fragments:
- plural form of foundation
- All that is left after other parts have been taken away, used up, or destroyed.
- A dead body or parts of a dead body.
- The unpublished writings of a deceased author.
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