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charnel
adjective
noun
gruesomely indicative of death or the dead
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adjective
gruesomely indicative of death or the dead
“a charnel smell came from the chest filled with dead men's bones”
noun
a vault or building where corpses or bones are deposited
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a charnel smell came from the chest filled with dead men's bones
ghastly shrieks
the sepulchral darkness of the catacombs
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