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charnel

/chahr-nl/US // ˈtʃɑr nl //UK // (ˈtʃɑːnəl) //

炼狱,炭疽,炭化炉,炭化室

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a repository for dead bodies.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : of, like, or fit for a charnel; deathlike; sepulchral.

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Examples

  • If I think about it for a moment, there are obviously lots of policy implications of Gosnell's baby charnel house.

  • The factory had indeed become a charnel-house, it being useless for the chiefs to admonish their men to keep under cover.

  • Its door an entrance to a living charnel-house, its iron-barred windows but the outlook of hell!

  • I was in the pit, the abyss, the human cesspool, the shambles and the charnel-house of our civilization.

  • The spectacle now under their eyes was itself sufficiently disagreeable, seeming a very charnel-house.

  • No scavenger shark, no carrion crab, ever chambered more grisly secrets in his digestive processes than this big charnel bird.