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1. charnel

noun. a vault or building where corpses or bones are deposited.

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  • charnel (French)
  • carnale (Latin)

2. charnel

adjective. gruesomely indicative of death or the dead.

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  • charnel (French)
  • carnale (Latin)

Sentences with charnel


1. Noun, singular or mass
Because the graveyards had limited space, old coffins were sometimes dug up and the bones placed in a separate building -- called a charnel house -- to make room for new graves.

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