ashen

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Lifting her eyes she saw--ashen, shaken, stricken-- not the Bishop but the man!

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  1. adjective Consisting of ashes.
  2. adjective Resembling ashes, especially in color; very pale: A face ashen with grief.
  3. adjective Of, relating to, or made from the wood of the ash tree.

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  • I hope I have done well by them Back to Table of Contents We're almost home by the time the sky goes ashen, the clouds scudding in across the sun. —  Asimov's Science Fiction, Jan. 2002
  • My cheeks were ashen, my eyes dull as some dying animal's. —  F ;SF - vol 092 issue 01 - January 1997
  • Her face was ashen, her eyes large and somehow bruised-looking, as if she had been injured. —  THE LIGHTKEEPER
  • The faint traces of moonlight coming through the window endowed everything in the room with a kind of ashen, metallic hue. —  F ;SF; - vol 103 issue 02 - August 2002
  • Now he was ashen, his eyes filled with a wild desperation He took a step towards her and Pippa shrank back involuntarily, afraid that he was going to strike her. —  KISSED BY SHADOWS
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ashy ·  livid ·  yellowish ·  sallow ·  coppery ·  cadaverous ·  pasty ·  waxy ·  deathly ·  colorless ·  greyish ·  wan
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Etymologies (2)

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  1. from Middle English *aschen, from Anglo-Saxon *æscen (Bosworth), from æsc, ash: see ash and -en.
  2. from ash + -en.
 

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