- ashen
- ash·en
English syllables. 2014.
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Ashen — Entwickler Torus Games Publisher … Deutsch Wikipedia
Ashen — could mean: *Dr Stuart Ashen, best known for YouTube clips that humorously satirizing poor retro games and low quality devices. *Made from ash wood *Having a colour resembling ash (the unburnable solid remains of a fire). In a medical context,… … Wikipedia
Ashen — Ash en, a. [See {Ash}, the tree.] Of or pertaining to the ash tree. Ashen poles. Dryden. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Ashen — Ash en, a. Consisting of, or resembling, ashes; of a color between brown and gray, or white and gray. [1913 Webster] The ashen hue of age. Sir W. Scott. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Ashen — Ash en, n., obs. pl. for {Ashes}. Chaucer. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
ashen — made of ash wood, c.1300; see ASH (Cf. ash) (2) + EN (Cf. en) (2); meaning ash colored, whitish gray, deadly pale is 1808, from ASH (Cf. ash) (1) … Etymology dictionary
ashen — ashy, livid, pallid, wan, *pale Analogous words: *ghastly, grim, macabre: blanched, bleached, decolorized (see WHITEN) … New Dictionary of Synonyms
ashen — [adj] gray anemic, blanched, cadaverous, colorless, ghastly, gray, leaden, pale, pallid, pasty, sallow, wan, white; concept 618 … New thesaurus
ashen — ► ADJECTIVE ▪ very pale through shock, fear, or illness … English terms dictionary
ashen — ashen1 [ash′ən] adj. 1. of ashes 2. like ashes, esp. in color; pale; pallid SYN. PALE1 ashen2 [ash′ən] adj. Archaic 1. of the ash tree 2. made of its wood … English World dictionary
ashen — [[t]æ̱ʃ(ə)n[/t]] ADJ Someone who is ashen looks very pale, especially because they are ill, shocked, or frightened. He was ashen and trembling... He fell back, shocked, his face ashen. Syn: pallid … English dictionary
