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Defenition of the word charnel

    • Defenition of the word charnel

      • A place for the bones thrown up when digging new graves in old burial grounds.
      • gruesomely indicative of death or the dead; "a charnel smell came from the chest filled with dead men's bones"; "ghastly shrieks"; "the sepulchral darkness of the catacombs"
      • a vault or building where corpses or bones are deposited
      • gruesomely indicative of death or the dead; "a charnel smell came from the chest filled with dead men''s bones"; "ghastly shrieks"; "the sepulchral darkness of the catacombs"
      • gruesomely indicative of death or the dead

    Synonyms for the word charnel

      • charnel house
      • ghastly
      • sepulchral

    Similar words in the charnel

      • offensive

    Hypernyms for the word charnel

      • burial vault
      • vault

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