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- noun Plural form of
dungeon .
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Examples
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Locking people up in dungeons by fiat keeps dictators in power, it does not keep nations safe and secure.
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It could build on 4e “the bad way” and have respawn points in dungeons and no RP at all, or it could build on it “the good way” and use the new core mechanic but allow for 3e-style class variation and eliminate the slavish devotion to minis.
Mike Mearls Strangles Realism In D&D Like It’s An Unruly Hooker « Geek Related 2009
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These regularly pinch off place in dungeons, also known as instances, that a quantity of characters can report together.
EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - Bit the bullet. The vBulletin that is. 2009
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Of course, conservatives don't believe you need any evidence to throw people down in dungeons and throw away the key.
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Random dungeons is not only a great innovation in those older games, it made replay much more of a pleasing idea.
EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - Some things we know and don’t know about DIII 2008
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Persons who claimed that right have been at various times (and for the edification of other persons who might be tempted to go and do likewise) stoned, devoured by wild beasts, excommunicated, shut up in dungeons, burned at the stake and hanged, drawn and quartered.
Marriage as a Trade 1909
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Ten times as many were starving in Spanish dungeons, from which occasionally, by happy accident, a cry could be heard like this which follows.
English Seamen in the Sixteenth Century Lectures Delivered at Oxford Easter Terms 1893-4 James Anthony Froude 1856
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The Iredell County Home, which is one of the best in the State, has two "dungeons" -- dark rooms -- for the punishment of inmates.
Biennial Report of the State Board of Charities and Public Welfare, December 1, 1920 to June 30, 1922 North Carolina State Board of Charities 1920
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Keep in mind that the Internet has its own "dungeons" - and it is where you need to shine and break the darkness to become successful on your Internet marketing career.
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I spent countless hours solving puzzles, riddles and fighting monsters in dungeons.
Venezuela bans violent video games: a first-person guest essay - Boing Boing 2009
kewpid commented on the word dungeons
… but no dragons. The stuck-on-freezing air-conditioning probably killed it.
June 14, 2008