ADJ
- glowing, hot, red-hot, smouldering
- the glowing ashes of the dying fire
- cold, dead
- The fire had died to cold ashes
- fine
- Fine ash covered the hill near the volcano
- bonfire, cigarette, coal, volcanic, wood
QUANT
- cloud
- A cloud of ash rose from the volcano
VERB + ASH
- flick, tap (used about cigarette ash)
- He flicked ash into the ashtray
- reduce sth to, turn to ~es
- a village reduced to ashes by war (figurative) All her dreams had turned to ashes
ASH + VERB
- fall
- Ash from the volcano fell over a wide area
PHRASES
- rise from the ashes (figurative)
- The party had risen, like a phoenix, from the ashes of electoral disaster
VERB + ASH
- scatter
- His ashes were scattered on his beloved farm
