The earthy or mineral particles of combustible substances remaining after combustion, as of wood or coal.

Specifically: The remains of the human body when burnt, or when returned to dust by natural decay.

The dust or remains of anything burnt: the remains of the human body when burnt ( fig.) a dead body.

The remains of what is burned; the remains of a dead body.

See ASH1 or ASH2.

The remains of anything burnt; the remains of a human body burnt on the funeral pyre; a dead body; the dust of the dead.

The dust or matter that remains from a burnt body; the remains of any body reduced to dust.

" Why did He put love in our hearts if it must turn our lives to ashes? – Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter by Lawrence L. Lynch

The ashes were flying about on the hearth and the trees outside beat their branches against the windows. – The Place Beyond the Winds by Harriet T. Comstock

She drew her trembling fingers across her eyes, wet her lips which felt dry as ashes. – Tharon of Lost Valley by Vingie E. Roe

The King shook his head slowly, and knocked the ashes from his pipe. – Revenge! by by Robert Barr

Do you not believe that this terrible kingdom should be destroyed- made as nothing, and a new one built from its ashes? – Tom Swift and his Air Glider or, Seeking the Platinum Treasure by Victor Appleton

I beheld in front of me village after village reduced to ashes. – Korea's Fight for Freedom by F.A. McKenzie

If you doubt my word, come down on your knees with me and examine these ashes." – The Box with the Broken Seals by E. Phillips Oppenheim

Peter shouted, his heart turning to ashes. – Sisters by Kathleen Norris

" I will appreciate it," said Wallie, sharply, " if you won't kick ashes in my gravy!" – The Dude Wrangler by Caroline Lockhart

I am now a new man, sprung like fire from ashes. – The Shaving of Shagpat, Complete by George Meredith

She bowed her head as though beneath a weight; her skin was the pallor of grey ashes. – The Damned by Algernon Blackwood

You sink up to your knees in ashes. – Letters of Anton Chekhov by Anton Chekhov Translated by Constance Garnett

I saw the ashes of a dead fire, and a cask that had held rum lying with the sides and end knocked in. – Montlivet by Alice Prescott Smith

The hopes which had accompanied the end of slavery, half a century earlier, had turned to ashes. – The Black Experience in America The Immigrant Heritage of America by Norman Coombs

Her fresh life seemed all burned away and turned to ashes. – Landolin by Berthold Auerbach

Let a new fire arise from the ashes! – Witch-Doctors by Charles Beadle

But as soon as they were out of their beds and at play in another part of the palace, the Queen went to the closet, and setting fire to the two heron- skins where they hung, burnt them till not a feather of them was left, and only a heap of grey ashes remained to tell what had become of them. – Moonshine & Clover by Laurence Housman