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[ adjective ] ash-colored or anemic looking from illness or emotion

Examples

"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 Shelley "lips white with terror"

Used in print

(Glayds H. Barr, The Master of Geneva....)

John stood above him , his face ashen .

Related terms

colorless

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[ adjective ] made of wood of the ash tree

Related terms

woody

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