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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 char·nel /ˈʧɑrnḷ/
 納骨堂的;陰森森的

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Char·nel a.  Containing the bodies of the dead. Charnel vaults.”
 Charnel house, a tomb, vault, cemetery, or other place where the bones of the dead are deposited; originally, a place for the bones thrown up when digging new graves in old burial grounds.

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Char·nel, n. A charnel house; a grave; a cemetery.
    In their proud charnel of Thermopylæ.   --Byron.
 

From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 charnel
      adj : gruesomely indicative of death or the dead; "a charnel smell
            came from the chest filled with dead men's bones";
            "ghastly shrieks"; "the sepulchral darkness of the
            catacombs" [syn: ghastly, sepulchral]
      n : a vault or building where corpses or bones are deposited
          [syn: charnel house]