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View synonyms for charnel

charnel

[ chahr-nl ]

noun

  1. a repository for dead bodies.


adjective

  1. of, like, or fit for a charnel; deathlike; sepulchral.

charnel

/ ˈtʃɑːnəl /

noun

  1. short for charnel house


adjective

  1. ghastly; sepulchral; deathly

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Word History and Origins

Origin of charnel1

First recorded in 1350–1400; Middle English, from Middle French, from Late Latin carnāle, noun and adjective use of neuter of carnālis carnal

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Word History and Origins

Origin of charnel1

C14: from Old French: burial place, from Latin carnālis fleshly, carnal

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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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