charnel
英 ['tʃɑ:nəl] 美 ['tʃɑnəl]

n.

藏骸所，停尸房；

adj.

似停尸房的，恐怖的，阴森的；

英英释义

charnel[ 'tʃɑ:nəl ]

• n.a vault or building where corpses or bones are deposited

  同义词：charnel house

• adj.gruesomely indicative of death or the dead

  "a charnel smell came from the chest filled with dead men's bones"

  同义词：ghastlysepulchral

双语例句

用作名词(n.)

1. The bombing turned the barracks into a charnel.
   轰炸使营房变成了藏骸所。

用作形容词(adj.)

1. A charnel smell came from the chest filled with dead men's bones.
   一股阴森的气味从装满死人尸骨的柜子中透出。

权威例句

Charnel system having independently divided cells
Orlan : de l'art charnel au baiser de l'artiste
"Singing off the Charnel Steps": Soldiers and Mourners in Emily Dickinson's War Poetry
Philadelphia doctor who ran "baby charnel house"is charged with murder.
Thinking the Charnel Ground (the Charnel Ground Thinking): Auto-Commentary and Death in Esoteric Buddhism
Feasting with the dead: Ohio hopewell charnel house ritual as a context for redistribution
The empire of death: a cultural history of ossuaries and charnel houses
MORTUARY RITUAL AND WINTER SOLSTICE IMAGERY OF THE HARLAN-STYLE CHARNEL HOUSE
Cannibalism in Chaco Canyon: the charnel pit excavated in 1926 at Small House ruin by Frank H.H. Roberts, Jr.
Libraries of the Dead: Early Bronze Age Charnel Houses and Social Identity at Urban Bab edh-Dhra', Jordan ☆