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How to pronounce ashen in English?

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Synonyms blanched, bloodless, livid, white


a face turned ashen.
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Examples of ashen

ashen
The moment was as ashen for the Scarlet Knights as it was sweet for Connecticut.
From the inrich.com
Even the busboy from the nightclub has come, his face ashen with responsibility.
From the newsobserver.com
The cameras cross to the now silenced nail-biting and ashen-faced Hawera throng.
From the nzherald.co.nz
On Monday, his brother saw him looking ashen and urged him to go to the hospital.
From the cnn.com
Tall and lean, he at times has looked ashen as he walks the halls of the Capitol.
From the washingtonpost.com
The picture of our appalled, ashen faces hangs above the mantelpiece to this day.
From the guardian.co.uk
Landscapes are Burtonesque, fingered branches scratching an ashen, moonlit sky.
From the timesunion.com
An ashen-looking Hernandez stood in handcuffs during the hearing and never spoke.
From the huffingtonpost.com
Above and beyond, the sun burnt the clods of untilled soil and ashen olive-groves.
From the morningstaronline.co.uk
More examples
  • Anemic looking from illness or emotion; "a face turned ashen"; "the invalid's blanched cheeks"; "tried to speak with bloodless lips"; "a face livid with shock"; "lips...livid with the hue of death"- Mary W. Shelley; "lips white with terror"; "a face white with rage"
  • Made of wood of the ash tree
  • Ashen is a supernatural horror-themed FPS developed exclusively for the N-Gage platform by Torus Games and published by Nokia on May 25, 2004.
  • (ashenly) In an ashen way
  • (ashenness) The state or condition of being ashen
  • The centermost area of the Marredland, it is in this place that the resulting crack in the earth is narrowest, and the only place at which one can cross to the other side of this crack.