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| Main Entry: |
ash(es)
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | remains of burning |
| Synonyms: | charcoal, cinders, dust, embers, powder, relics, remains, ruins, slag, soot |
| Main Entry: | ashes |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ruins |
| Synonyms: | debris, relics, remains, remnants, rubble, vestiges |
| Main Entry: | embers |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | hot ashes from fire |
| Synonyms: | ash, brand, cinders, clinkers, coals, firebrand, live coals, slag, smoking remnants, smoldering remains |
| Main Entry: | gray/grey |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | muted silver in color |
| Synonyms: | ash, ashen, battleship, cinereal, clouded, dingy, dove, drab, dusky, dusty, granite, heather, iron, lead, leaden, livid, mousy, neutral, oyster, pearly, peppery, powder, sere, shaded, silvered, silvery, slate, smoky, somber, stone |
| Main Entry: | ember |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | piece of burned matter |
| Synonyms: | ash, brand, cinder, coal, slag |
| Main Entry: | coal |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | bitumen |
| Synonyms: | anthracite, ash, carbon, char, charcoal, cinder, culm, ember, fuel, scoria, slack, smut, spark, stoke |
| Main Entry: | gray |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | silver |
| Synonyms: | ash, ashen, cinereal, clouded, dappled, dingy, dove, drab, dusky, dusty, grey, heather, iron, lead, leaden, livid, mousy, neutral, oyster, pearly, peppery, powder, sere, shaded, silvered, silvery, slate, smoky, somber, stone |
| Notes: | the distinction in spelling between British grey and American gray is recent, popping up in Samuel Johnson's dictionary |
| Main Entry: | blond |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | light-haired |
| Synonyms: | ash, bleached, blonde, color, fair, flaxen, gold, golden, light, platinum, sandy, straw, towheaded, yellow |
| Antonyms: | brunet, brunette |
| Main Entry: | body |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | corpse |
| Synonyms: | ashes, bones, cadaver, carcass, carrion, clay, corpus delicti, dead body, deceased, dust, relic, remains, stiff* |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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