blackened
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AFP video footage showed that the fire had burned down the mosque's interior carpeting and blackened the walls.
From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2026
Already green shoots of bracken are bursting through the blackened earth and that will crowd out the traditional heather, bilberry and cowberry.
From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026
Four Marines crouch in the foreground surrounded by the blackened remains of burned trees; in the top two-thirds of the picture the black-and-white smoke of the blast billows upward, beautiful in its destruction.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
An unburned pine cone lies on the floor of the blackened forest.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2026
Quite a few single poles and blackened tree trunks stuck up from the ground, and here and there a skeleton of a building rose forlornly.
From "A Place to Belong" by Cynthia Kadohata
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