| NOUN | artifact | charnel, charnel house | a vault or building where corpses or bones are deposited |
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| ADJECTIVE | all | charnel, ghastly, sepulchral | gruesomely indicative of death or the dead |
| Meaning | gruesomely indicative of death or the dead. | |
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| Example | "a charnel smell came from the chest filled with dead men's bones" | |
| Synonyms | ghastly, sepulchral | |
| Broader | offensive | unpleasant or disgusting especially to the senses |
| Spanish | sepulcral | |
| Meaning | A vault or building where corpses or bones are deposited. | |
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| Synonym | charnel house | |
| Broader | vault, burial vault | A burial chamber (usually underground) |
| Spanish | osario | |
| Catalan | ossera | |
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