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Textual thesaurus for "charnel"

(adj) sepulchral, ghastly

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) charnel house

a vault or building where corpses or bones are deposited