OUBLIETTES Synonyms: 51 Similar and Opposite Words

oubliettes

noun

plural of oubliette

as in dungeons

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outsides

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Noun

When Daemon goes to kill Orwyle – heads must roll, after all, and Aegon is nowhere to be found – Orwyle sends him to the dungeons for Lord Wylde.

— Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 29 June 2026
Meanwhile, Willingham, Riegel, Laura Bailey, Taliesin Jaffe, Ashley Johnson, Liam O’Brien, Marisha Ray, and sometimes special guests, played the characters who delved through dungeons and fought at least five (5) dragons.

— Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 17 June 2026

Definition of dungeons

Noun

Meanwhile, thousands more are waiting in county jails for cases that are winding through a new, convoluted and confusing system where geography controls the rules.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 31 July 2026
He was transferred to the maximum-security prison after previously being housed in jails closer to where his trial was scheduled to take place in Boise.

— Caroline Blair, PEOPLE, 30 July 2026

Definition of jails

Noun

Alfonsi departed after clashing with Bari Weiss, CBS News’ editor in chief, who delayed the airing of a report the journalist had prepared investigating the deportation of migrants to harsh prisons in Venezuela.

— Brian Steinberg, Variety, 3 Aug. 2026
Given some of the ideas such as abolishing prisons and defunding the Pentagon, that seems like a reasonable argument.

— Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 3 Aug. 2026

Definition of prisons

Noun

Hodge says he was abused in multiple federal penitentiaries, but was frequently blocked from filing complaints about it.

— Christie Thompson, NPR, 13 July 2026
This includes providing the Colombian military more leeway in the field, signing a new security agreement with Washington and building 10 mega-prisons that mimic Bukele’s network of penitentiaries in El Salvador.

— Daniel DePetris, Chicago Tribune, 2 June 2026

Definition of penitentiaries

Noun

At center stand two cages modeled after nineteenth-century shipping containers that carried Pacific breadfruit to Europe for study and consumption.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 5 Aug. 2026
Many sloths intended for display at the International Drive attraction languished and died by early this year in small cages inside an unheated warehouse.

— Rylan DiGiacomo-Rapp, The Orlando Sentinel, 5 Aug. 2026

Definition of cages

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