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charnel
[ chahr-nl ]
noun
- a repository for dead bodies.
adjective
- of, like, or fit for a charnel; deathlike; sepulchral.
charnel
/ ˈtʃɑːnəl /
adjective
- ghastly; sepulchral; deathly
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of charnel1
Example Sentences
If I think about it for a moment, there are obviously lots of policy implications of Gosnell's baby charnel house.
The factory had indeed become a charnel-house, it being useless for the chiefs to admonish their men to keep under cover.
Its door an entrance to a living charnel-house, its iron-barred windows but the outlook of hell!
I was in the pit, the abyss, the human cesspool, the shambles and the charnel-house of our civilization.
The spectacle now under their eyes was itself sufficiently disagreeable, seeming a very charnel-house.
No scavenger shark, no carrion crab, ever chambered more grisly secrets in his digestive processes than this big charnel bird.
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