What's the difference between charnel and deathlike?
Charnel
Definition:
(a.) Containing the bodies of the dead.
(n.) A charnel house; a grave; a cemetery.
Example Sentences:
(1) He opposed Barack Obama’s 2011 campaign to oust Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi, which has left Libya the kind of charnel house it was intended to prevent.
(2) From the skeletal remains of about 5800 individuals from the charnel house of Eggenburg there were 2200 individuals of late medieval date.
(3) The bombs instantly turned Boylston Street into a charnel house.
(4) The journalist and historian Carey McWilliams wrote almost 70 years ago the missions could be better conceived as “a series of picturesque charnel houses ”.
Deathlike
Definition:
(a.) Resembling death.
(a.) Deadly.
Example Sentences:
(1) The main referring symptom was a pattern of intense libidinal looking at and aggressive looking away from others, which functioned as a preoedipal splitting to keep apart opposite "all good," life-enhancing and "all bad," deathlike self and object representations.
(2) The mind seems to be filled with all kinds of distortions and irrelevant and perhaps totally inconsistent fantasies, such as imprisonment, confinement, or deathlike experiences.