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Charnel Common

Charnel has 4 different meanings across 2 categories:

Noun · Adjective

Definitions
Noun
1

a vault or building where corpses or bones are deposited

2

A chapel attached to a mortuary.

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"

2

Of or relating to a charnel, deathlike, sepulchral.

Example Sentences
"a charnel smell came from the chest filled with dead men's bones" adjective
"ghastly shrieks" adjective
"the sepulchral darkness of the catacombs" adjective
Related Terms
Broader Terms (hypernyms)
vault
Rhyming Words
nel hnel arnel linel janel panel monel simnel runnel gunnel darnel lionel vennel tunnel pannel brunel cronel hornel crenel lignel
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