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refuge
/ˈɹɛfjudʒ/
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What does refuge mean?
noun
- A state of safety, protection or shelter.
- A place providing safety, protection or shelter.
- Something or someone turned to for safety or assistance; a recourse or resort.
More meanings (5)
noun
- An expedient to secure protection or defence.
- A refuge island.
- A kind of daily prayer or recitation.
verb
- To return to a place of shelter.
- (obsolete) To shelter; to protect.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈɹɛfjudʒ/
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By this time the south wall of the amphitheater cast a narrow shelf of shadow, and the party withdrew to this refuge.
His delineator does not forget to mention the attitude of mystery in which the Prince took refuge whenever his feelings were hurt.
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“I don’t really know him,” she said, and took refuge in facts, believing that elderly people really like them better than feelings.
Mr. Franklin’s letter I sent to him in the library—into which refuge his driftings had now taken him for the second time.
And for fear of being forced to betray his suspicion of the cause of her change, he took refuge in a commonplace.