charnel

[US]/'tʃɑːn(ə)l/
[UK]/'tʃɑrnl/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

adj. resembling a morgue; eerie; terrifying
n. a place where bones are stored; a morgue; a burial place.
Word Forms
Pluralcharnels

Phrases & Collocations

charnel house

charnel ground

Example Sentences

I gagged on the charnel stench of the place.

Europe in the immediate post-war period had become a charnel house.

The bombing turned the barracks into a charnel house.

Vowed Charnel, who traveled everyplace With her slippered foot in a velvet case.

charnel house of war

charnel ground of history

the charnel house of memory

charnel house of the mind

Real-world Examples

This wasn't a hospital. This was a charnel house.

Source: Women Who Changed the World

Within the bosom of the encircling hills, an impenetrable darkness had already settled; and the plain lay like a vast and deserted charnel-house, without omen or whisper to disturb the slumbers of its numerous and hapless tenants.

Source: The Last of the Mohicans (Chinese)

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