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ashes

noun as in powder remains after a fire

noun as in ruins

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She also threatened to dig up the body of the president’s father from the Heroes’ Cemetery in Manila and dump the ashes in the sea.

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The Mountain Fire had scorched some of the fruit, leaving it shriveled or in ashes.

The place where, 18 years ago, my wife and I married at the tree marking the burial site of her father’s ashes.

She visited the site of the house on Thursday afternoon for the first time with a shovel in her hand, sifting through the smoldering ashes looking for anything of sentimental interest.

“All of our family memories, all of our possessions, Social Security cards, death certificates, birth certificates, my husband’s father’s ashes, my father’s ashes and my mother’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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