1. A vault or building where corpses or bones are deposited
   - charnel house

1. Gruesomely indicative of death or the dead
   "a charnel smell came from the chest filled with dead men's bones"
   - ghastly, sepulchral

Derived forms: charnels

See also: offensive

Type of: burial vault, vault

Encyclopedia: Charnel

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