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charnel

noun

variants also charnel house

Definition of charnel

as in tomb

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Recent Examples of charnel Thousands of homes and a sprawl of entire neighborhoods were transformed into outdoor charnel houses. — Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 10 Jan. 2025 For the Himalayan monks of the early teen centuries, the ideal setting for initiation was a charnel ground, where people left their dead to be eaten by wild animals. — Jackson Arn, The New Yorker, 2 Jan. 2025 His third-floor office, in a dingy concrete building across a roaring four-lane road from the Ikeja market, is a charnel house of dead mobile phones. — Vince Beiser, WIRED, 30 Nov. 2024 Out of this charnel house where an American flag hung at one end, technicians hoped to identify 388 sailors and Marines from the Oklahoma. — Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 16 Oct. 2024 See All Example Sentences for charnel

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Noun

The drug was likely used in a burial ritual at a tomb discovered in what is now Siberia.

— Mary Randolph, Scientific American, 5 Nov. 2026
The team from Germany, Russia, Sweden and Switzerland said analysis of hair in the royal tomb where cannabis seeds turned up sheds new light on the plant's role in ancient societies.

— ABC News, ABC News, 5 Nov. 2026

Definition of tomb

Noun

Likewise, intestinal organoids are steered into developing native types of intestinal cells, including epithelial cells and cells in specialized structures such as crypts.

— Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 6 Nov. 2026
Both in the opera and by contemporary accounts, Abraham entered his son’s crypt and had the casket opened on multiple occasions in the days after Willie died.

— Neal Goren, Air Mail, 17 Oct. 2026

Definition of crypt

Noun

The Enclave, Buick’s large, three-row crossover, has been redesigned for 2018, allowing the automaker to finally place its predecessor in a sepulchre and seal the entrance.

— Al Haas, Philly.com, 28 June 2018
The Garden Tomb, is believed by many to be the garden and sepulchre of Joseph of Arimathea, and therefore a possible site of the resurrection of Jesus.

— Joe Yudin, Town & Country, 5 Oct. 2016

Definition of sepulchre

Noun

Rain fell as families wept beside the coffins, and officers held portraits of their fallen colleagues.

— ABC News, ABC News, 8 Nov. 2026
The monumental burial mound included a log cabin-like structure, one coffin, and the remains of multiple individuals and horse sacrifices.

— Theresa Gaffney, STAT, 6 Nov. 2026

Definition of coffin

Noun

Here, the archaeologists found the untouched remains of his mummy inside a limestone sarcophagus.

— Anne Doran for ARTnews, Robb Report, 3 Nov. 2026
The shape of the lime patch suggested that the body had been inside a rectangular wooden coffin that was then filled with lime before being placed in the sarcophagus, Rodwell said.

— Mindy Weisberger, CNN Money, 2 Nov. 2026

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