Kennel

Noun

 * 1) A house or shelter for a dog.
 * – We want to look at the dog kennels. – Ah yes, well that's the pets' department, second floor.
 * 1) A facility at which dogs are reared or boarded.
 * The town dog-catcher operates the kennel for strays.
 * She raises registered Dalmatians at her kennel. 
 * 1)  The dogs kept at such a facility; a pack of hounds.
 * 2) * 1843, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, book 3, ch. IX, Working Aristocracy
 * A world of mere Patent-Digesters will soon have nothing to digest: such world ends, and by Law of Nature must end, in ‘over-population;’  in howling universal famine, ‘impossibility,’ and suicidal madness, as of endless dog-kennels run rabid.

Synonyms

 * doghouse

Verb

 * 1) To house or board a dog (or less commonly another animal).
 * While we're away our friends will kennel our pet poodle.

Noun

 * 1) A gutter at the edge of a street.

Adjectives for Kennel
loathsome; dubious; extensive; ghostly.

Thesaurus
aqueduct, army, beleaguer, beset, besiege, blockade, bound, box in, bunch, cage, canal, canalization, cattery, chamber, channel, cloaca, cloaca maxima, close in, colony, compass, contain, coop, coop in, coop up, cordon, cordon off, corral, crimp, cut, dike, ditch, dog pound, doghouse, drain, drift, drive, drove, encircle, enclose, encompass, enshrine, entrenchment, fence in, flock, fosse, gam, gang, goffer, gutter, ha-ha, headchute, hedge in, hem in, herd, host, house in, impound, imprison, incarcerate, include, jail, leaguer, litter, mew, mew up, moat, pack, pen, pen in, piscina, pleat, pocket, pod, pound, pride, quarantine, rail in, school, scupper, sewer, shoal, shrine, shut in, shut up, sink, skulk, sloth, sluice, sough, stable, sump, sunk fence, surround, trench, trip, troop, trough, wall in, wrap, yard, yard up

Etymology 1
From Old Norman variant of chenil:, ultimately from  canis:

Noun

 * Basque: txakurtegi
 * Dutch:
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 * French:
 * German:
 * Hebrew: מלונה
 * Italian: ,


 * Japanese:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:, будка
 * Serbo-Croatian: pseća kućica, pasja kućica
 * Spanish:


 * German: Zwinger
 * Russian: псарня


 * Serbo-Croatian: psetarnik