noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
industrial
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Roses between thorns: the lock cottage at Witton surrounded by industrial premises and debris .
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Jobs, both temporary and permanent, have been created from industrial debris .
other
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And arrowheads and other debris excavated from the ruins indicate that Qumran, too, opposed the Romans by force of arms.
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However it was to no avail: the Orcs swarmed across the river floating on broken timber beams and other debris .
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All of these types of gravel must be washed very thoroughly as they often contain lots of dust or other debris .
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Flaps were to be left in the down position to facilitate the removal of mud and other debris prior to their retraction.
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Clear leaves and other debris from the sward.
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garden
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Get the Tidi Noir, a light, plastic bag, for garden debris .
plant
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Slugs and snails Soft-bodied, voracious molluscs that often shelter by day beneath leaves and plant debris , and feed at night.
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And always remove old plant debris .
■ VERB
clear
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She continued to talk, even after they'd cleared away the debris of their lunch and resumed work.
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Employees already had cleared the bridges of debris , and only one bridge crossing was under water Monday.
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In the hall a few sleepy serfs cleared away the debris left from the evening meal.
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In Dianetics, a workmanlike job of clearing away the debris in and around the machine is performed.
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You have to clear away the debris .
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Stretcher-bearers were trying to clear the debris to get to the wounded men.
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Other species seem to clear away this debris more easily.
find
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In the living room I found the usual debris .
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Earlier in the day, they found more gruesome debris .
fly
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Also, the order in which the individual loads of dynamite were detonated determined the principal direction for the flying debris .
remove
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It has reverse action which is basically used for removing debris and jammed drill bits.
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And always remove old plant debris .
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Use a vacuum cleaner to remove debris from between the key caps and clean them with a suitable solution.
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At the same time remove any excess debris that has accumulated on the pond bottom.
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Many helped firemen remove debris and others were ferrying the injured to hospitals.
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Ventilation ducts are cleaned to remove dust and debris , birds and insects.
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And remove debris in the pond base - both are jobs to do when the weather is warm.
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It is a surgical steel scraper that removes oral debris in a couple of strokes.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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The beach was littered with debris .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And arrowheads and other debris excavated from the ruins indicate that Qumran, too, opposed the Romans by force of arms.
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Flaps were to be left in the down position to facilitate the removal of mud and other debris prior to their retraction.
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Fragments of building debris can form a large part of the total number of finds from a site.
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Like a widening conveyer belt it scraped away more and more of the hillsides and carried off the debris .
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Men on board pulled the wounded and the mangled bodies of the dead from beneath collapsed debris .
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Wheels spun free and shredded carbon-fibre debris from disintegrating front wings flew in all directions.