ashen
About 0.47 uses per million words.
Meaning
- adjective Made from the wood of the ash-tree.
An ashen bow and quiver of arrows beside.
- adjective Of or resembling ashes.
A fine, ashen dust hung in the air.
- adjective Ash-colored; pale; anemic.
His ashen face belied his claims of good health.
- adjective Appalled; upset.
- verb To turn into ash; make or become ashy.
- verb To make or become pale.
Similar words
woody white colorless bloodless livid colourless blanched gray pale pallid
Often followed by
face and gray grey white hue with as in
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