charnel

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Adjective charnel has 1 sense

charnel, ghastly, sepulchral - 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"
Antonym: inoffensive (indirect, via offensive)

Noun charnel has 1 sense

charnel house, charnel - a vault or building where corpses or bones are deposited
--₁ is a kind of vault, burial vault

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