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ash: noun
ash: noun
ash-bin: noun
ashcan: noun
Ash Wednesday: noun

ash¹ [æʃ] N no pl (powder)

ash

ash

ash² [æʃ] N

1. ash (tree):

ash

2. ash no pl (wood):

ash

древеси́на f я́сеня

ash-bin [ˈæʃbɪn] N

у́рна f для му́сора

ashcan N, ash can N Am

ashcan → ash-bin

See also ash-bin

ash-bin [ˈæʃbɪn] N

у́рна f для му́сора

Ash Wednesday N

Ash Wednesday

пе́рвый де́нь m Вели́кого поста́

Usage examples with ashes

to be wearing sackcloth and ashes

посы́пать го́лову пе́плом

to reduce sth to rubble/ashes

превраща́ть в гру́ду камне́й/пе́пла

to rise from ashes like a phoenix

восста́ть как фе́никс из пе́пла

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English

Future interments will be in urns of cremated ashes placed in columbarium walls built on the new land. en.wikipedia.org

For toothache the bark is removed, the branch heated in ashes, and then placed in the mouth to harden a loose tooth. en.wikipedia.org

If players don't take appropriate steps, the possibility exists that one might wake up some morning to find their empire reduced to ashes. en.wikipedia.org

However, ashes and fossils (assessed to be of 15 million years age) unearthed here reveal that leaves, willows, alders, maples, rhododendrons and conifers existed here. en.wikipedia.org

If not, we'll be resigned to eating humble pie and wearing remorseful sackcloth and ashes for a week -- but, what do you think? entertainment.inquirer.net

It is named for the mythical bird phoenix, which is reborn from its ashes, to suggest the book's rise from obscurity. en.wikipedia.org

The word "ashcan" is an older synonym for wastebasket, trashcan, or other garbage receptacle, intended for ashes from a fire. en.wikipedia.org

Among the more peculiar items that have been handed in include a wedding dress, ashes in an urn, a longcase clock, a kitchen sink, and several wheelchairs. en.wikipedia.org

Local people began using the cemetery as a garbage dump, throwing old wire, pieces of metal, tin cans, carcasses, and household ashes onto the grounds. en.wikipedia.org

The easily alterable, or highly reactive, nature of these ashes and pumices limits their occurrence largely to recently active volcanic areas. en.wikipedia.org

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