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refuge refuges

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nounIf you take refuge somewhere, you try to protect yourself from physical harm by going there.They took refuge in a bomb shelter.His home became a place of refuge for the believers.A refuge is a place where you go for safety and protection, for example from violence or from bad weather....a refuge for women who had experienced domestic abuse.We climbed up a winding track towards a mountain refuge.If you take refuge in a particular way of behaving or thinking, you try to protect yourself from unhappiness or unpleasantness by behaving or thinking in that way.With these restrictions on childhood it's no wonder kids seek refuge in consumerism.Father Rowan took refuge in silence. C1

word	refuge
definition	noun If you take refuge somewhere, you try to protect yourself from physical harm by going there. They took refuge in a bomb shelter. His home became a place of refuge for the believers. A refuge is a place where you go for safety and protection, for example from violence or from bad weather. ...a refuge for women who had experienced domestic abuse. We climbed up a winding track towards a mountain refuge. If you take refuge in a particular way of behaving or thinking, you try to protect yourself from unhappiness or unpleasantness by behaving or thinking in that way. With these restrictions on childhood it's no wonder kids seek refuge in consumerism. Father Rowan took refuge in silence.
inflections	refuges
cefr-level	C1

Refuge Protect Place Behaving Noun Physical Harm Bomb