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em·ber  (mbr)
n.
1. A small, glowing piece of coal or wood, as in a dying fire.
2. embers The smoldering coal or ash of a dying fire.

[Middle English embre, from Old English merge.]
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embers
plural noun cinders, ashes, residue, live coals We were sitting around the dying embers of the bonfire.
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embers
plGlut f ? fan1

embers [ˈɛmbəz] nplbraci fpl
embers [ˈɛmbəz] nplbraci fpl

embers
n pl embers [ˈembəz]
the sparking or glowing remains of a fire. warm as جَمْر жарава řeřavé uhlíky glød die Glut θράκα brasa, ascuas, rescoldo hõõguvad söed بقایای آتش؛ تکه های نیمسوز hiillos braise גָחֶלֶת अंगारा žeravica parázs bara glæður brace 残り火 타다 남은 불 žarijos kvēlojošas ogles bara gloeiende as de siste glør, ulmende aske węgle, żar brasa tăciuni (aprinşi) последние тлеющие угольки žeravé uhlíky žerjavica žar glöd ถ่านที่ยังคุอยู่ kor, köz 餘火,餘燼 жаринки, що жевріють بجھتا انگارا than hồng trong đám lửa sắp tắt


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He had been gazing at the red embers as intently as if his past life were all pictured there, or as if it were a prospect of the future world, when little Alice's voice aroused him.
The most simple manner in which this operation is performed, and I think, the best, consists in placing any number of the freshly plucked fruit, when in a particular state of greenness, among the embers of a fire, in the same way that you would roast a potato.
I observed this also and contrived a fan of branches, which roused the embers when they were nearly extinguished.
 
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