charnel
a repository for dead bodies.
of, like, or fit for a charnel; deathlike; sepulchral.
Origin of charnel
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How to use charnel in a sentence
If I think about it for a moment, there are obviously lots of policy implications of Gosnell's baby charnel house.
Why I Didn't Write About Gosnell's Trial--And Why I Should Have | Megan McArdle | April 12, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTThe factory had indeed become a charnel-house, it being useless for the chiefs to admonish their men to keep under cover.
Rule of the Monk | Giuseppe GaribaldiIts door an entrance to a living charnel-house, its iron-barred windows but the outlook of hell!
The Boys of '61 | Charles Carleton Coffin.I was in the pit, the abyss, the human cesspool, the shambles and the charnel-house of our civilization.
Revolution and Other Essays | Jack LondonThe spectacle now under their eyes was itself sufficiently disagreeable, seeming a very charnel-house.
The Vee-Boers | Mayne Reid
No scavenger shark, no carrion crab, ever chambered more grisly secrets in his digestive processes than this big charnel bird.
The Escape of Mr. Trimm | Irvin S. Cobb
British Dictionary definitions for charnel
/ (ˈtʃɑːnəl) /
short for charnel house
ghastly; sepulchral; deathly
Origin of charnel
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