1. (

• charnel_house ,
• charnel

) a vault or building where corpses or bones are deposited ;

1. (

• 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" ;