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dungeon

[duhn-juhn] / ˈdʌn dʒən /
NOUN
prison
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In response, the leader of Arioka orders Kanbei be thrown in the castle’s impeccably dingy dungeon.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 30, 2026

At that point, it felt like a dungeon, the inner rooms.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 21, 2026

The catacombs beneath a crumbling city have cracked wide open, revealing a vast, spiraling dungeon teeming with strange beasts and stranger plants.

From Salon May 12, 2025

The guard buzzed us through a solid steel gate to give us entry to the main hallway, with the dungeon located at the end.

From Slate Oct. 20, 2024

Everyone called Mr. Rizzo’s room the dungeon because it had only two skinny windows, which didn’t let in any sunlight.

From "Time Bomb" by Joelle Charbonneau

It’s weird to be alive at a time when much of contemporary warfare comprises literal laser beams, flying robots and dungeons full of nerds at computer terminals, but that’s really what’s happening.

From Salon Mar. 25, 2026

Mr Hamaguchi says the developers want the open world to work as "one single space" with "all of the towns, all of the dungeons and everything linked together seamlessly in one space".

From BBC Sep. 21, 2023

Classic dungeons return in the form of multilayered temples with interlocking puzzles.

From New York Times May 12, 2023

Harris descended into the dungeons of the facility, toured the cells where enslaved people were kept and walked through the so-called door of no return, choking back tears, her hand over her mouth.

From Washington Post Mar. 28, 2023

Potions lessons took place down in one of the dungeons.

From "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" by J.K. Rowling




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