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rubbled

rubbled adjective: reduced to rubble. Also the simple past and past participle of rubble.

Adjective

rubbled (not comparable)

  1. Reduced to rubble.
  2. Strewn with rubble.
    • Look: a heap of burnt huts, Ibrahim, openmouthed and lionhearted, leading his men across the rubbled field.2019, Maaza Mengiste, The Shadow King, Canongate Books (2020), page 155

Also used as

rubbled is also the simple past and past participle of rubble.

Origin of rubbled

From rubble + -ed.

Questions about rubbled

What does rubbled mean?
Rubbled means reduced to rubble.
What part of speech is rubbled?
Rubbled is an adjective.

Words near rubbled in the dictionary

  1. rubble crabs
  2. rubble drain
  3. rubble drains
  4. rubble pile
  5. rubble piles
  6. rubbled
  7. rubbles
  8. rubblestone
  9. rubblework
  10. rubblier
  11. rubbliest

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