Synonyms for Dungeons:
n.
•prisons (noun)Cells, Pens, reformatories, jailhouses, harnesses, cages, handcuffs, bridles, pounds, strongholds, coolers, vises, Pillories, lockups, Prisons, jails, fences, collars, keeps, pinions, oubliettes, shackles, tethers, gaols, coops, Penitentiaries, brigs, confines, irons, straight jackets, penal colonies, stockades, reform schools, manacles.
Usage examples for dungeons
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They are faire built prisons, full within of deepe ditches, and dungeons full of darkenes, serpents and torments. – A Discourse of Life and Death, by Mornay; and Antonius by Garnier by Philippe de Mornay Robert Garnier
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Before night they shall lie in the dungeons of Charleroi." – A Hero of Liége by Herbert Strang
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The miserable man no sooner saw me Than at my feet he fell, and there, with screams, Clasping my knees, and writhing like a worm, Implored, conjured me to acquaint him with His sovereign's destiny, for vague reports Had somehow reached the dungeons of the Tower That she had been condemned to suffer death. – Mary Stuart A Tragedy by Frederich Schiller