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a dark underground space in a castle used for keeping prisoners
The king threw them into the dungeon.
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Recent Examples of dungeon
Men are imprisoned in a dungeon.
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Lynnette Nicholas, Parents, 20 Mar. 2025
Moments of ferocious, wall-of-noise intensity come interspersed with passages of beautiful calm, like vape breaks between stints inside a dungeon rave.
—Sam Davies, Rolling Stone, 19 Mar. 2025
The game also has a fantastic dungeon crawl that is often run at conventions by Dionne herself.
—Rob Wieland, Forbes, 19 Mar. 2025
Players lead the minotaur on goose chases into traps, set up ambushes with exploding gas jars from another part of the dungeon, or even convince the factions inside the dungeon to join them in an all-out battle against it with overwhelming numbers.
—Rob Wieland, Forbes, 19 Mar. 2025
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Lynnette Nicholas, Parents, 20 Mar. 2025
Moments of ferocious, wall-of-noise intensity come interspersed with passages of beautiful calm, like vape breaks between stints inside a dungeon rave.
—Sam Davies, Rolling Stone, 19 Mar. 2025
The game also has a fantastic dungeon crawl that is often run at conventions by Dionne herself.
—Rob Wieland, Forbes, 19 Mar. 2025
Players lead the minotaur on goose chases into traps, set up ambushes with exploding gas jars from another part of the dungeon, or even convince the factions inside the dungeon to join them in an all-out battle against it with overwhelming numbers.
—Rob Wieland, Forbes, 19 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for dungeon
Noun
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More than 21,000 people died in local jails and state prisons in four years, according to records the government has hidden from public view since 2021.—
Gina Barton,
USA Today,
26 Apr. 2025
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David Castro, with a long history of drug use, has been in Santa Clara County jail awaiting trial since he was arrested in 2023.—
Julia Prodis Sulek,
Mercury News,
25 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Steven Hirsch/New York Post via AP, Pool If convicted, Hemphill could spend the rest of his life in prison.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
25 Apr. 2025
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Petties was sentenced to life in prison in 2013 at age 36 for his trafficking career and connection to multiple homicides.—
Andreas Wiseman,
Deadline,
25 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Jeffrey’s game plan was to hold Murad Ramazanov against the cage and chip away with strikes in close.—
Trent Reinsmith,
Forbes.com,
18 Apr. 2025
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Today's demonstrations show the strength of our growing movement, powered by people of all walks of life coming together to demand investments in our communities, not more cages.—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
MSNBC Newsweek,
17 Apr. 2025
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Even if one of the arriving Republic cruisers is probably about to scoop him up and throw him into a proper brig.—
Matt Webb Mitovich,
TVLine,
14 Jan. 2025
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Meanwhile, any question that Jod and Captain Silvo (the pirate whose crew mutinied in the series premiere) are one and the same was dismissed, when Brutus and his crew spoke of how Silvo had escaped the brig before facing a trial.—
Matt Webb Mitovich,
TVLine,
10 Dec. 2024
Noun
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There just didn’t appear to be any gas in the tank, nor any will to compete.—
Josh Yohe,
New York Times,
14 Apr. 2025
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Keep water fresh in livestock tanks, and try to prevent spillover.—
Arricca Elin SanSone,
Southern Living,
14 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Barnes, 67, was convicted and sentenced to 21 years in a Russian penitentiary in February 2024.—
Tanya Stukalova,
ABC News,
18 Apr. 2025
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The first penitentiaries weren’t built until the late 1700s, so more extreme sentences were deemed necessary to prevent discord.—
Brenna Ehrlich,
Rolling Stone,
29 Mar. 2025
Noun
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With the dogs gone, the birds are now free to leave their coop and roam in her yard, which is about a block south of the property where the dogs lived.—
Eleanor Nash,
Kansas City Star,
18 Apr. 2025
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Ask any gardener: Gardening shoes are a must for messy, wet, or muddy tasks in flower beds, chicken coops, vegetable gardens, or anywhere else your everyday shoes don’t stand a chance.—
Miles Walls,
Better Homes & Gardens,
4 Apr. 2025
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“Dungeon.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dungeon. Accessed 29 Apr. 2025.
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