: resembling ashes (as in color)
especially
: deathly pale
a face ashen and haggard
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still looking ashen from his bout with the flu
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David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 2 Dec. 2024
Blend it in with a finger, a brush, or a sponge, and voila: a summery, outdoorsy flush to keep ashen winter skin at bay.
—Jenny Berg, Vogue, 24 Nov. 2024
The cruelest consolation for an innocent life made ashen before her time.
—Andy Andersen, Vulture, 3 Nov. 2024
Planted into the ashen soil, the future forest continues to need human help: soil amendments, watering, weeding, protection from hungry animals and more.
—Lisa M. Krieger, The Mercury News, 9 Sep. 2024
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Adjective
But the film that follows — luminously ashen where too many recent movies and TV shows have just been irritatingly dim — is flooded with a moonlight so lucid and alive that even the story’s most stygian moments might as well have been set at high noon.
—David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 2 Dec. 2024
Blend it in with a finger, a brush, or a sponge, and voila: a summery, outdoorsy flush to keep ashen winter skin at bay.
—Jenny Berg, Vogue, 24 Nov. 2024
The cruelest consolation for an innocent life made ashen before her time.
—Andy Andersen, Vulture, 3 Nov. 2024
Planted into the ashen soil, the future forest continues to need human help: soil amendments, watering, weeding, protection from hungry animals and more.
—Lisa M. Krieger, The Mercury News, 9 Sep. 2024
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“Ashen.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ashen. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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