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dungeon

[duhn-juhn] / ˈdʌn dʒən /
NOUN
prison
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The dungeon is full of weird, pulsing, half-sentient creatures — more slime than steak.

From Salon • May 12, 2025

At least two other Texas prisons, the Gib Lewis Unit and the John B. Connally Unit, have their own version of the dungeon.

From Slate • Oct. 20, 2024

Not another cooking game, but instead a new take on a dungeon crawler where you can team up with your friends to survive in a twisted reality show competition.

From BBC • Aug. 21, 2024

When Supergiant Games was wrapping up Hades, a mythologically rich hack-and-slash dungeon crawler it had spent more than three years developing, the studio concluded it was not quite done.

From New York Times • May 13, 2024

When, just three weeks earlier, his KGB bosses had recalled him to Moscow from London, Gordievsky feared that he might disappear immediately into the bowels of Lefortovo Prison, the KGB dungeon.

From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau