charnel

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I - noun

a vault or building where corpses or bones are deposited (Freq. 1)
• Syn:
charnel house
• Hypernyms:
vault, burial vault

II - adjective

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
• Syn:
ghastly, sepulchral
• Similar to:
offensive
• Derivationally related forms:
ghastliness (for: ghastly)