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ash·en1    Audio Help   [ash-uhn] Pronunciation Key
–adjective
1.ash-colored; gray.
2.extremely pale; drained of color; pallid: His face was ashen.
3.consisting of ashes.

[Origin: 1350–1400; ME; see ash1, -en2]

1. ashy. 2. pasty, colorless.
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ash·en2    Audio Help   [ash-uhn] Pronunciation Key
–adjective
1.pertaining to the ash tree or its timber.
2.made of wood from the ash tree.

[Origin: bef. 1000; ME, OE; see ash2, -en2]
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ash·en 1    Audio Help   (āsh'ən)  Pronunciation Key 
adj.  
  1. Consisting of ashes.
  2. Resembling ashes, especially in color; very pale: A face ashen with grief.

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ash·en 2    Audio Help   (āsh'ən)  Pronunciation Key 
adj.   Of, relating to, or made from the wood of the ash tree.

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ashen 
"made of ash wood," c.1300 (see ash (2)); meaning "ash-colored, whitish-gray, deadly pale" is 1808, from ash (1).

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ashen

adjective
1. anemic looking from illness or emotion; "a face turned ashen"; "the invalid's blanched cheeks"; "tried to speak with bloodless lips"; "a face livid with shock"; "lips...livid with the hue of death"- Mary W. Shelley; "lips white with terror"; "a face white with rage" 
2. made of wood of the ash tree 

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ˈashen adjective
(of someone's face etc) very pale with shock etc
Arabic: شاحِب
Chinese (Simplified): 苍白的
Chinese (Traditional): 蒼白的
Czech: bledý
Danish: askegrå
Dutch: asgrauw
Estonian: tuhakarva
Finnish: tuhkanharmaa
French: terreux
German: aschfahl
Greek: κάτωχρος
Hungarian: hamuszürke
Icelandic: náfölur
Indonesian: pucat
Italian: cinereo
Japanese: 青ざめた
Korean: 재의, 창백한
Latvian: pelnu-; pelnu pelēks
Lithuanian: papilkėjęs, išblyškęs
Norwegian: askegrå
Polish: popielaty, szary
Portuguese (Brazil): cinzento
Portuguese (Portugal): cinzento
Romanian: pământiu
Russian: мертвенно-бледный
Slovak: bledý, popolavý
Slovenian: prsten, bled
Spanish: ceniciento, pálido
Swedish: askgrå
Turkish: kül rengi, rengi uçmuş
See also: ash, ashes, ashtray

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Ashen

Ash"en\, a. [See Ash, the tree.] Of or pertaining to the ash tree. "Ashen poles." --Dryden.
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Ashen

Ash"en\, a. Consisting of, or resembling, ashes; of a color between brown and gray, or white and gray.

The ashen hue of age. --Sir W. Scott.
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Ashen

Ash"en\, n., obs. pl. for Ashes. --Chaucer.
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