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dungeon

[duhn-juhn] / ˈdʌn dʒən /
NOUN
prison
Synonyms


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He scrambled together a videotape, renting out a dungeon batting cage in Manhattan for a throwing session.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026

The narrator is paranoid, weepy and violent, overwhelmed by visions of his own death, and the bass sounds as if it’s descending to a windowless dungeon.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026

The show is part travelogue, part adventure quest with monsters, magic battles and dungeon exploration.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 4, 2025

The dungeon is full of weird, pulsing, half-sentient creatures — more slime than steak.

From Salon ● May 12, 2025

But: “I remember,” he was later to say, “the day my dungeon shook and my chains fell off.”

From "Go Tell It on the Mountain" by James Baldwin

She also prayed in a 17th Century chapel that was positioned directly above the dungeons.

From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026

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

If Link is puzzle-solving muscle, Zelda is conjurer, a solution-based thinker whose approach to monsters, dungeons and rifts that turn the world into fragments is equal parts patience, humor and, yes, action.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2024

When Breath of the Wild was released in 2017, it rescued The Legend of Zelda, a video game franchise growing stale because of a predictable gameplay loop of dungeons and fetch quests.

From New York Times ● May 12, 2023

The Special Defense level is situated almost as far down as the dungeons where we found the prep team.

From "Mockingjay" by Suzanne Collins


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