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charnel

noun

1 charnel

A vault or building where corpses or bones are deposited.

synonym: charnel house.

Dutch: beenderhuis, knekelhuis, ossuarium

adjective

1 charnel

Gruesomely indicative of death or the dead:
— A charnel smell came from the chest filled with dead men's bones.

synonyms: ghastly, sepulchral.


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