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Anh-Việt Anh-Anh
  • noun
    plural ashes
    the soft gray powder that remains after something (such as a cigarette or wood) has been completely burned and destroyed by fire [noncount]
    The town lay under a thick layer/blanket of ash.
    clouds of hot volcanic ash [count]
    The village was covered in ashes.
    cigarette ashes
    ashes [plural] :the burned parts that remain when something is destroyed
    The city was reduced to ashes by the fire. = The city was burned to ashes. - often used figuratively
    Their happiness turned to ashes. [=their happiness was destroyed]
    The nation slowly rose from the ashes of war. = It slowly rose out of the ashes and began to rebuild itself.
    We sifted through the ashes of our ruined lives.
    ashes [plural] :the remains of a dead human body after it has been burned or cremated
    the ashes of the dead
    She kept her dead mother's ashes in a jar above the fireplace.
    He asked to have his ashes scattered along the river. - compare 2ash
    sackcloth and ashes
    xem sackcloth
    noun
    plural ashes
    [count] :a type of tree that grows in northern parts of the world and that has thin gray bark and hard wood
    [noncount] :the hard wood of an ash tree
    baseball bats made of ash - compare 1ash

    * Các từ tương tự:
    ash can, Ash Wednesday, ashamed, ash-blond, ashen, ashore, ashram, ashtray