ash
noun /æʃ/
/æʃ/
Idioms - cigarette ash
- black volcanic ash
- Ash from the volcano fell over a wide area.
- She flicked ash out of the window carelessly.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- glowing
- hot
- red-hot
- …
- cloud
- flick
- tap
- reduce something to
- …
- fall
- rise from the ashes
- ashes[plural] what is left after something has been destroyed by burning
- The town was reduced to ashes in the fighting.
- the glowing ashes of the campfire
- The fire had died to cold ashes.
- (figurative) The party had risen, like a phoenix, from the ashes of electoral disaster.
- She had seen all her dreams turn to ashes.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- glowing
- hot
- red-hot
- …
- cloud
- flick
- tap
- reduce something to
- …
- fall
- rise from the ashes
- ashes[plural] the powder that is left after a dead person’s body has been cremated (= burned)
- She wanted her ashes to be scattered at sea.
WordfinderTopics Life stagesc2- ashes
- cemetery
- coffin
- cremation
- die
- funeral
- grave
- hearse
- morgue
- mourn
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverb + ashes- scatter
- spread
- bury
- …
- enlarge image[countable, uncountable](also ash tree)a forest tree with grey barkTopics Plants and treesc2
- [uncountable] the hard pale wood of the ash tree
- (specialist) the letter æ, used in Old English, and as a phonetic symbol to represent the vowel sound in cat
Word Originsenses 1 to 3 Old English æsce, aexe, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch as and German Asche.senses 4 to 5 Old English æsc, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch es and German Esche.
Idioms
wear, put on, etc. sackcloth and ashes
- to behave in a way that shows that you are sorry for something that you have done