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Перевод: ashy

[прилагательное]
пепельный; покрытый пеплом; бледный

Тезаурус:

1. Next, explosive activity will start, blasting ashy material in jets a couple of hundred metres above sea level.
2. It is also charged, like the looming pit bank, with menace: loud threats of speed, flames like red sores licking its ashy sides.
3. To accompany the auditory imagery of verbs, the adjectives bring visual imagery, particularly of colour (10): red, scarlet, and pink contrast vividly with black, tarred, and ashy, bringing into relief small signs of light or life against the drab and blighted background.
4. The sun was beginning to float down on the mountains, and the sea glittered lazily at the foot of their ashy, opaque shadows.
5. Another notable grouping of adjectives, this time morphologically defined, consists of adjectives ending in -y: marshy, reedy, ashy, dreary, clumsy, wintry, twiggy.
6. Later the practice of cremation led to tidier storage of ashy remains in cinerary urns, though still ritually accompanied by pottery beakers and food bowls, animals and birds, and even helpings of fish to succour the departed on their way.
7. Another one, older, the barbs of his feathers going soft and ashy, burrowed under her raised arm.
8. Often, the three elements are intermingled, so that the result is a mixture of white streaked with the grey or black ashy material.
9. Adjectives underline the theme of lifelessness: wintry, bony, ashy and stagnant all connote death in their various spheres of meaning.
10. In all the houses, a burned, ashy sediment had been piled up around some of the cooking-holes while they held containers, and this sediment was particularly rich in plant remains.
11. The brown glossy skin was ashy and rough, and his eyes stared.
12. These spatter cones contain little, if any, fine-grained ashy material and are amongst the most characteristic products of Hawaiian eruptions.
13. The pit-bank loomed up beyond the pond, flames like red sores licking its ashy sides, in the afternoon's stagnant light (7).