noun
- A vault or building where corpses or bones are deposited.
- synonyms: charnel house
adjective
- Gruesomely indicative of death or the dead.
- usage: "a charnel smell came from the chest filled with dead men's bones"; "ghastly shrieks"; "the sepulchral darkness of the catacombs"
- synonyms: ghastly, sepulchral
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