| 单词 | ashen |
| 释义 | ashen (once / 4223 pages) 1adj 2adj Use the word ashen to describe the pale face of someone who is shocked and upset. Your best friend might look ashen when he hears that his favorite baseball team traded its star player. The adjective ashen was first used to describe ashes, the powdery substance left over when something burns, but it soon came to mean things that have the same pale, lifeless color as ashes. Like wood or coal that starts out brown or black and loses all color in the ashes that remain, things that are ashen are pale, washed out, or even colorless. Ashen is most often applied to the complexions of those facing stressful situations. WORD FAMILYashen USAGE EXAMPLESI want to hide our ashen faces and give them the long historical view and say: It’s going to be OK. Slate(Nov 09, 2016) His fiction is frequently set in Germany during the war and in its aftermath, an ashen land of the lost and the displaced. The New Yorker(Nov 03, 2016) Forewarning: You’ll be photographed hitting a crash mat on the 69th floor, so wear an outfit that will complement an ashen expression. Wall Street Journal(Oct 27, 2016) 1 adj anemic looking from illness or emotion 2a face turned ashen Syn blanched, bloodless, livid, white colorless, colourless weak in color; not colorful adj made of wood of the ash tree Syn woody made of or containing or resembling wood |
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