Synonyms: charnel, charnel house
Definition: a vault or building where corpses or bones are deposited
Similar words: vault, burial vault
Definition: a burial chamber (usually underground)
Synonyms: charnel, sepulchral, ghastly
Definition: gruesomely indicative of death or the dead
Usage: a charnel smell came from the chest filled with dead men's bones; ghastly shrieks; the sepulchral darkness of the catacombs
Similar words: offensive
Definition: unpleasant or disgusting especially to the senses
Usage: offensive odors