Ashes
Ashes noun - The portion or bits of something left over or behind after it has been destroyed.
Usage example: a new and more splendid city was built on the ashes of the old
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Remains
Remains noun - The portion or bits of something left over or behind after it has been destroyed.
Usage example: the remains of the house ripped apart by the tornado littered the block for weeks afterward
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Darryl accidentally makes coffee out of his father's remains and they recover the ashes from the coffee filter but Ethan drops them and ends up sobbing on the carpet.
Source: Ashes to Crashes -
Left-Justified Fantasy Map: Inverted—to the west lies the trackless Sea of Dust, all that remains of the Suel Imperium after the Rain of Colorless Fire burnt it to ashes.
Source: Tabletop Game / Greyhawk - David later has the ashes reburied in the family tomb along with the remains of the seven men who had been killed for their ancestor's massacre of the Gibeonites.
Source: Literature / Books of Samuel
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