1. dungeon - Noun
2. dungeon - Verb
A close, dark prison, common/, under ground, as if the lower apartments of the donjon or keep of a castle, these being used as prisons.
To shut up in a dungeon.
Source: Webster's dictionaryWhat other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self! Nathaniel Hawthorne
He that has light within his own clear breast, May sit i' the centre, and enjoy bright day; But he that hides a dark soul, and foul thoughts, Benighted walks under the mid-day sun; Himself is his own dungeon. John Milton
Harsh words live in the dungeon of the heart. Norman Mailer
Role-playing isn't storytelling. If the dungeon master is directing it, it's not a game. Gary Gygax
It is better to look from the mountain than from the dungeon. Yugoslav Proverb
The very time I thought I was lost, my dungeon shook and my chains fell off. African American Proverb