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Webster 1913 Edition


Dungeon

Dun′geon

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Verb.
T.
To shut up in a dungeon.
Bp. Hall.

Webster 1828 Edition


Dungeon

DUNGEON

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Noun.
1.
A close prison; or a deep, dark place of confinement.
And in a dungeon deep.
They brought Joseph hastily out of the dungeon. Genesis 41.
2.
A subterraneous place of close confinement.

DUNGEON

,
Verb.
T.
To confine in a dungeon.

Definition 2024


dungeon

dungeon

English

Noun

dungeon (plural dungeons)

  1. An underground prison or vault, typically built underneath a castle.
    • Macaulay
      Year after year he lay patiently in a dungeon.
  2. (obsolete) The main tower of a motte or castle; a keep or donjon.
  3. (games) An area inhabited by enemies, containing story objectives, treasure and bosses.
  4. (BDSM) A room dedicated to sadomasochistic sexual activity.

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dungeon (third-person singular simple present dungeons, present participle dungeoning, simple past and past participle dungeoned)

  1. (transitive) To imprison in a dungeon.
    • 1830, William Cobbett, History of the Regency and Reign of King George the Fourth
      Of every act of severity, of every bold violation of the constitution, of every bill for dungeoning and gagging the people, of every tax, of every loan, of all that set frugality at defiance, and that mocked at mercy, these men had been either the authors or the most strenuous supporters []