OUBLIETTES Synonyms: 51 Similar and Opposite Words

oubliettes

noun

plural of oubliette

as in dungeons

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Noun

Released to critical acclaim in 2022, the role-playing game from Japanese publisher Bandai Namco is set in a dark fantasy world and allows players to head off on adventures within vast environments and dungeons.

— Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 27 Oct. 2026
Whether Gore is Hammer’s saviour after so long in the cinematic dungeons remains to be seen.

— Alex Ritman, Variety, 5 Oct. 2026

Definition of dungeons

Noun

No record of Gutierrez’s arrest appears in an online database maintained by the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, which oversees county jails, suggesting that he may have been booked in the LAPD’s detention facilities.

— James Queally, Los Angeles Times, 28 Oct. 2026
Unlike municipalities, Florida sheriffs offices and county jails were mandated to sign 287(g) agreements.

— Syra Ortiz Blanes, Miami Herald, 27 Oct. 2026

Definition of jails

Noun

The Israeli Supreme Court earlier this year ordered the government to resume sharing such lists and allowing the ICRC to visit detainees in Israeli prisons to assess their conditions.

— ABC News, ABC News, 25 Oct. 2026
Flávio has promised to designate major criminal factions as terrorist groups, expand prisons and lower the age of criminal responsibility.

— Alessandra Freitas, CNN Money, 25 Oct. 2026

Definition of prisons

Noun

Use bulb cages or buried layers of hardware cloth to repel rodents, and try adding tree guards and fencing to fend off larger animals.

— Abby Monteil, The Spruce, 28 Oct. 2026
In 2018, reporters visited the Ursula detention center in South Texas, an old warehouse housing hundreds of children in a series of cages bound by metal fencing.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 26 Oct. 2026

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