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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 dungeons
Start exploring from the dungeons with sweeping ocean views at Castillo San Felipe del Morro, the city's vast colonial fortress.
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Carley Rojas Avila, Travel + Leisure, 3 Dec. 2025
Beyond rivals the finest Zelda dungeons with its ability to present you with a litany of ingenious puzzles to solve and levels to navigate, micro tasks to complete, and macro goals to accomplish.
—PC Magazine, 2 Dec. 2025
Hidden passageways, dungeons frozen in time, and eerie corridors are like catnip for those with a proclivity toward the paranormal.
—Nicole Kliest, Vogue, 12 Oct. 2025
The developers sprinkle puzzle elements into some dungeons while also adding moments where stealth is more useful and efficient than brute force.
—Gieson Cacho, Mercury News, 26 Sep. 2025
Beautiful caverns adorned with foliage and flowers are frequently sandwiched between dungeons filled with cages and cold steel.
—Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 19 Sep. 2025
Starting today, the latest duo of PvE dungeons dubbed the Feast of Shadows update is now available for console players.
—David Jagneaux, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
And so there's this castle that has these massive dungeons .
—Outside Online, 27 Aug. 2025
Most of Starfield's dungeons are randomized.
—ArsTechnica, 18 Aug. 2025
Carley Rojas Avila, Travel + Leisure, 3 Dec. 2025
Beyond rivals the finest Zelda dungeons with its ability to present you with a litany of ingenious puzzles to solve and levels to navigate, micro tasks to complete, and macro goals to accomplish.
—PC Magazine, 2 Dec. 2025
Hidden passageways, dungeons frozen in time, and eerie corridors are like catnip for those with a proclivity toward the paranormal.
—Nicole Kliest, Vogue, 12 Oct. 2025
The developers sprinkle puzzle elements into some dungeons while also adding moments where stealth is more useful and efficient than brute force.
—Gieson Cacho, Mercury News, 26 Sep. 2025
Beautiful caverns adorned with foliage and flowers are frequently sandwiched between dungeons filled with cages and cold steel.
—Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 19 Sep. 2025
Starting today, the latest duo of PvE dungeons dubbed the Feast of Shadows update is now available for console players.
—David Jagneaux, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
And so there's this castle that has these massive dungeons .
—Outside Online, 27 Aug. 2025
Most of Starfield's dungeons are randomized.
—ArsTechnica, 18 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for dungeons
Noun
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One of the biggest components of the capital program is the construction of replacement jails to enable, in theory, the closure of Rikers Island.—
Eric Kober,
New York Daily News,
19 Feb. 2026
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Accordingly, internment camp authorities sent the resisters to local jails outside the camp, then transferred them to Tulelake Camp, a Civilian Conservation Corps camp repurposed to jail the men who rejected the loyalty questionnaire.—
Jake Goodrick,
Sacbee.com,
19 Feb. 2026
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Thousands of Liam Ramoses remain in filthy cages.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
19 Feb. 2026
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Core concepts carry over from Edwards’ two signature models through large synthetic cages running down its sides, as well as the shapes of its toe box.—
Ian Servantes,
Footwear News,
18 Feb. 2026
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On January 31, the domestic oppositionists Abdollah Momeni, Mehdi Mahmoudian, and Vida Rabbani were swept up and sent to prisons in northern Iran, far from their Tehran residences.—
Arash Azizi,
The Atlantic,
20 Feb. 2026
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With the exponential rise of deranged talking heads, private prisons, Amazon-like concentration camps, Cop City, local police trained by the Israeli Army, and AI technology to develop inconceivable weapons, the apocalypse does not appear far off.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
19 Feb. 2026
Noun
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When examining the evolution of armoured warfare, the tanks that truly changed modern warfare are those that delivered a decisive technological leap, influenced future tank design, and impacted battlefield outcomes.—
Kaif Shaikh,
Interesting Engineering,
6 Nov. 2025
Noun
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The wave of prison violence is happening despite the deployment of military and police forces in several penitentiaries.—
Michael Rios,
CNN Money,
8 Dec. 2025
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After his conviction, Gray was sent to Angola, one of the most violent penitentiaries in the country at the time.—
Richard A. Webster,
ProPublica,
25 Aug. 2025
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Among the photos were his pups, chicken coops covered in snow and David trekking through the terrain with a walking stick.—
Marina Watts,
PEOPLE,
12 Jan. 2026
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Researchers found that parents bought items ranging from jiu jitsu to dance lessons, sewing machines to snowshoes, chicken coops to drum sets.—
Sarah Cutler,
Idaho Statesman,
3 Dec. 2025
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“Dungeons.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dungeons. Accessed 21 Feb. 2026.
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