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charnel

[ chahr-nl ]

noun

  1. a repository for dead bodies.


adjective

  1. of, like, or fit for a charnel; deathlike; sepulchral.

charnel

/ 藞迟蕛蓱藧苍蓹濒 /

noun

  1. short for charnel house
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

adjective

  1. ghastly; sepulchral; deathly
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of charnel1

First recorded in 1350鈥1400; Middle English, from Middle French, from Late Latin 肠补谤苍腻濒别, noun and adjective use of neuter of 肠补谤苍腻濒颈蝉 carnal
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of charnel1

C14: from Old French: burial place, from Latin 肠补谤苍腻濒颈蝉 fleshly, carnal
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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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Now it's become a charnel house after Hamas gunmen burst out of the Gaza Strip on Saturday and laid waste to the village.

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Mrs King told journalists: "Care homes became charnel houses because there was no testing, there was insufficient PPE, but, most disastrously, it's because they discharged people from hospitals without testing them."

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Technological "advances" had made it possible for governments to turn World War I into a merciless charnel house on a vast scale.

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"Care homes became charnel houses because there was no testing, there was insufficient PPE, but, most disastrously, it's because they discharged people from hospitals without testing them."

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