CHARNEL

• (noun) a vault or building where corpses or bones are deposited

  synonyms : charnel house

• (adj.) 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"

  synonyms : ghastly , sepulchral

  You're making a ghastly mistake. -added by nithi

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