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ashen

/ash-uhn/US // ˈæʃ ən //UK // (ˈæʃən) //

苍白,苍白无力,苍白的,灰色的

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : ash-colored; gray.
    • : extremely pale; drained of color; pallid: His face was ashen.
    • : consisting of ashes.

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Examples

  • “I turned completely ashen, completely pale,” Beck remembers.

  • They forecast an endless and ashen winter for the country that began as a brilliant idea.

  • Jerry Sandusky was alert but ashen as he stood at the defense table to hear his fate.

  • When the ashen Silda Spitzer appeared with her husband Eliot, it was the last straw.

  • His hair was darker—almost brown save at the temples, where age had faded it to an ashen colour.

  • His face is ashen gray; the black beard is streaked with red, and blood is oozing from his neck.

  • Lamb saw an ashen-face bespectacled man peering around the corner of an ell.

  • They paused, aghast, and they turned ashen; and then in the mind of each arose the same explanation of this phenomenon.

  • His good-looking young face turned to an ashen hue, and his eyes were wild and staring.