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REFUGE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Act of turning to for assistance
Example:
an appeal to his uncle was his last resort
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("refuge" is a kind of...):
aid; assist; assistance; help (the activity of contributing to the fulfillment of a need or furtherance of an effort or purpose)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A shelter from danger or hardship
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("refuge" is a kind of...):
shelter (a structure that provides privacy and protection from danger)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "refuge"):
harbor; harbour (a place of refuge and comfort and security)
safehold (a refuge from attack)
safe house (a house used as a hiding place or refuge by members of certain organizations)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Something or someone turned to for assistance or security
Example:
took refuge in lying
Synonyms:
recourse; refuge; resort
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("refuge" is a kind of...):
resource (a source of aid or support that may be drawn upon when needed)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "refuge"):
shadow (refuge from danger or observation)
Sense 4
Meaning:
A safe place
Example:
He ran to safety
Synonyms:
refuge; safety
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Hypernyms ("refuge" is a kind of...):
area; country (a particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography))
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "refuge"):
harborage; harbourage ((nautical) a place of refuge (as for a ship))
Context examples:
He had at least five small refuges in different parts of London, in which he was able to change his personality.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Jekyll was now my city of refuge; let but Hyde peep out an instant, and the hands of all men would be raised to take and slay him.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
Researchers report that termites slow the spread of deserts into drylands by providing a moist refuge for vegetation on and around their mounds.
(Dirt mounds made by termites in Africa, South America, Asia could prevent spread of deserts, NSF)
The sail swung round once more, and the cog, battered and torn and well-nigh water-logged, staggered in for this haven of refuge.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
These civil commotions were constantly fomented by the monarchs of Blefuscu; and when they were quelled, the exiles always fled for refuge to that empire.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
But in spite of gleams of sunshine, there was thunder in the air, and Champion Harrison had just whispered in my ear that he was quite sure that we should never get through the night without trouble, and was advising me, if it got very bad, to take refuge under the table, when the landlord entered the room hurriedly and handed a note to my uncle.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He gave each one quiet kiss, said in a low tone a few words of welcome, stood a while to be talked to, and then, intimating that he supposed they would soon rejoin him in the parlour, withdrew there as to a place of refuge.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Any delay runs the risk that the virus could find refuge and cause damage in the brain, where some medications are less effective – potentially enabling it to re-emerge, even after it is suppressed in the periphery.
(HIV can spread early, evolve in patients’ brains, NIH)
Sir Thomas's sending away his son seemed to her so like a parent's care, under the influence of a foreboding of evil to himself, that she could not help feeling dreadful presentiments; and as the long evenings of autumn came on, was so terribly haunted by these ideas, in the sad solitariness of her cottage, as to be obliged to take daily refuge in the dining-room of the Park.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
My place of refuge was constructed of wood, but so low that I could with difficulty sit upright in it.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
