as in jail
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
Created and written by George R.R. Martin and Hidetaka Miyazaki, the original video game is an open-world third-person game where gamers can explore six different areas set in the Lands Between and travel through dungeons, catacombs, and more.
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Alejandra Gularte, Vulture, 22 May 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
Players start off delving through a dungeon fighting rust beasts, when Stamp runs into a ragtag group of youngsters who call their gang BB.
—Gieson Cacho, Mercury News, 18 Apr. 2025
From Jon Snow and Ygritte to Daenerys and Drogo, these Westeros couples are the ones EW would go to battle for — or lock up in the Red Keep dungeons.
—Tyler Aquilina, EW.com, 17 Apr. 2025
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Alejandra Gularte, Vulture, 22 May 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
Players start off delving through a dungeon fighting rust beasts, when Stamp runs into a ragtag group of youngsters who call their gang BB.
—Gieson Cacho, Mercury News, 18 Apr. 2025
From Jon Snow and Ygritte to Daenerys and Drogo, these Westeros couples are the ones EW would go to battle for — or lock up in the Red Keep dungeons.
—Tyler Aquilina, EW.com, 17 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for dungeon
Noun
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Anyone who assaults or attacks an ICE or Border Agent will do hard time in jail.—
Anna Commander,
MSNBC Newsweek,
13 June 2025
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Her father was a Wall Street trader currently serving a two-and-a-half-year jail bid.—
Jeff Weiss,
HollywoodReporter,
12 June 2025
Noun
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Sherry had been in and out of prison for years, while Juan had battled chronic illness.—
Ashley Vega,
People.com,
12 June 2025
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Both face felony charges and over six years in prison.—
Jasmine Baehr,
FOXNews.com,
12 June 2025
Noun
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As her friend was talking to the female suspect, Lomeli left to find a box to place the kittens in, since the suspects did not want the hand over the cage that originally carried the animals.—
Megan Forrester,
ABC News,
5 June 2025
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The scientists have already utilized the technology to print items such as a checkerboard pattern, a cross, a chain, a ball in a cage, and two balls in a helix.—
Ben Coxworth,
New Atlas,
4 June 2025
Noun
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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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Unsurprisingly, the likely damage caused by Abrams tanks driving down Washington’s civilian streets was also an issue raised back in 1991.—
Paul Iddon,
Forbes.com,
3 June 2025
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The neckline of the tank and the skirt’s hemline included white and clear crystal sequins.—
Rachel Flynn,
People.com,
2 June 2025
Noun
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He was freed on parole from the Terre Haute, Indiana, federal penitentiary on Nov. 30, 1948, after serving 32 months of his five-year prison sentence.—
Kori Rumore,
Chicago Tribune,
28 May 2025
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However, he was sent back to the high-security prison in 1962 and stayed there until he was transferred to the federal penitentiary in Atlanta, Georgia.—
Greta Cross,
USA Today,
6 May 2025
Noun
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Since then, her former chicken coop has been turned into a greenhouse.—
Deborah Laverty,
Chicago Tribune,
5 June 2025
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Within two days, there were dead chickens inside every coop.—
Suzy Khimm,
NBC news,
21 Mar. 2025
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“Dungeon.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dungeon. Accessed 17 Jun. 2025.
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