Use the word ashen to describe the pale face of someone who is shocked and upset. Your best friend might look ashen when he hears that his favorite baseball team traded its star player.
Of or pertaining to the ash tree.
Adjective S.
ash-colored or 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
Adjective S.
made of wood of the ash tree
a.
Of or pertaining to the ash tree.
a.
Consisting of, or resembling, ashes; of a color between
brown and gray, or white and gray.
n.
obs. pl. for Ashes.
Ashen
Ashen
The ashen hue of age.
Ashen
Of or pertaining to the ash tree.
Consisting of, or resembling, ashes; of a color between brown and gray, or white and gray.
obs. pl. for
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