Charnel Definition

charnel
adjective
  1. 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"
noun
  1. a vault or building where corpses or bones are deposited

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