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| | DETRITUS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20) |
 | | If they [flying cars] were easy to produce, we'd be walking around wearing helmets to protect us from the detritus of flying car crashes. |
 | | The loose detritus of thought, washed down to us through long ages. |
 | | Detritus derives from the past participle of Latin deterere, "to rub away, to wear out," from de-, "from" + terere, "to rub." It is related to detriment, at root "a rubbing away, a wearing away," hence "damage, harm." |
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