charnel house
noun
1- historical a building or vault in which corpses or bones are piled〈史〉藏尸所; 尸骨堂。
1.1
- figurative a place associated with violent death〈喻〉凶杀之地：
Europe in the immediate post-war period had become a charnel house.
欧洲在战事刚结束时成了尸横遍野的地方。
词源
mid 16th cent.: from Middle English charnel 'burying place'， from Old French， from medieval Latin carnale, from late Latin carnalis 'relating to flesh'， from caro, carn- 'flesh'.