: a building or chamber in which bodies or bones are deposited
called also charnel house
charnel
adjective
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Out of this charnel house where an American flag hung at one end, technicians hoped to identify 388 sailors and Marines from the Oklahoma.
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Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 16 Oct. 2024
Kfar Aza, a kibbutz close to the separation barrier with Gaza, was burned nearly to the ground: a charnel house.
—Joshua Leifer, The New York Review of Books, 28 Oct. 2023
Kfar Aza, a kibbutz close to the separation barrier with Gaza, has been burned to the ground, a charnel house of mangled corpses.
—Joshua Leifer, The New York Review of Books, 12 Oct. 2023
The senseless charnel houses of Verdun and the Somme found their match in Bakhmut.
—Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 14 Aug. 2023
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Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 16 Oct. 2024
Kfar Aza, a kibbutz close to the separation barrier with Gaza, was burned nearly to the ground: a charnel house.
—Joshua Leifer, The New York Review of Books, 28 Oct. 2023
Kfar Aza, a kibbutz close to the separation barrier with Gaza, has been burned to the ground, a charnel house of mangled corpses.
—Joshua Leifer, The New York Review of Books, 12 Oct. 2023
The senseless charnel houses of Verdun and the Somme found their match in Bakhmut.
—Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 14 Aug. 2023
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“Charnel.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/charnel. Accessed 23 Nov. 2024.
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charnel
noun
char·nel
ˈchärn-ᵊl 
: a building or chamber in which dead bodies or bones are deposited
charnel
adjective
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