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  • adjective Resembling ash

Etymologies

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ash +‎ -like

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Examples

  • Occasionally his mouth twitched, as though a fly had settled on it, and I wondered what painful shard of memory was at work under the almost featureless, ashlike mask that had become his face.

    Neon Rain James Lee Burke 1987

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