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cindery

cindery adjective: covered in cinders.

Adjective

cindery (not comparable)

  1. covered in cinders
    • A new interstate blasted like an infinite airstrip straight through the hills toward the horizon; it had been done so brutally that we kept seeing on either side of the freeway corridor the stump-ends of the old cindery roads, and boarded-up tourist traps dangling precariously on the sheared...1993 November 19, Lee Sandlin, “The American Scheme”, in Chicago Reader
    • The same snow lies over the fens and marshes and freezes Quixote's windmills to a standstill against the cindery Flemish sky.1986, John le Carré, A Perfect Spy
    Synonyms:
    cinderous

cindery meaning in Tamil

cindery in Tamil

கங்குகரியான

Examples of cindery in a sentence

  • The whole of this coast has been spoiled by the recent upheaval of Monte Nuovo with its lava floods and cindery deluges.1884, John Addington Symonds, New Italian sketches:
  • There were men there who made such speeches and expressed such sentiments as any moderately intelligent dustman would have blushed through his cindery bloom to have thought of.1880, Charles Dickens, The Letters of Charles Dickens:
  • The wagon mired and cannon dragged Have trenched their scar; the plain Tramped like the cindery beach of the damned-- A site for the city of Cain.1866, Herman Melville, Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War:

Synonyms of cindery

Origin of cindery

From cinder + -y.

Questions about cindery

What does cindery mean?
Cindery means covered in cinders.
What is cindery in Tamil?
Cindery in Tamil is கங்குகரியான. See Cindery meaning in Tamil.
How do you use cindery in a sentence?
The whole of this coast has been spoiled by the recent upheaval of Monte Nuovo with its lava floods and cindery deluges.
What part of speech is cindery?
Cindery is an adjective.

Words near cindery in the dictionary

  1. cinderlike
  2. cinderman
  3. cindermen
  4. cinderous
  5. cinders
  6. cindery
  7. Cindi
  8. Cindie
  9. Cindy
  10. cindynic
  11. cindynics

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