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View definitions for ashes

ashes

noun as in powder remains after a fire

noun as in ruins

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If Trump is successful, however, he would fundamentally reshape a global economic order that America had originally helped to construct from the ashes of World War 2.

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A man has been charged with 64 offences after a major investigation into a funeral directors in Hull in which police removed 35 bodies and a quantity of ashes.

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The land, though — the land keeps telling its own stories, layered stories older than the ashes.

This is where they scattered some of her ashes.

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“The way Nick forges his metals is special,” said Kevin Napoli, who purchased two of Berkofsky’s kitchen knives and a pair of cremation lockets for him and his son to carry his father’s ashes.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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