refugees

[Ref·uge]

To take refuge is to find a safe place. You might take refuge under a bridge in a hail storm, or in a basement during a tornado.

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Shelter or protection from danger or distress.

Noun
act of turning to for assistance; "have recourse to the courts"; "an appeal to his uncle was his last resort"

Noun
a shelter from danger or hardship

Noun
something or someone turned to for assistance or security; "his only recourse was the police"; "took refuge in lying"

Noun
a safe place; "He ran to safety"


n.
Shelter or protection from danger or distress.

n.
That which shelters or protects from danger, or from distress or calamity; a stronghold which protects by its strength, or a sanctuary which secures safety by its sacredness; a place inaccessible to an enemy.

n.
An expedient to secure protection or defense; a device or contrivance.

v. t.
To shelter; to protect.


Refuge

Ref"uge (r?f"?j), n. [F. r'82fuge, L. refugium, fr. refugere to flee back; pref. re- + figere. SEe Fugitive.] 1. Shelter or protection from danger or distress.
Rocks, dens, and caves! But I in none of these Find place or refuge.
We might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us.
2. That which shelters or protects from danger, or from distress or calamity; a stronghold which protects by its strength, or a sanctuary which secures safety by its sacredness; a place inaccessible to an enemy.
The high hills are a refuger the wild goats.
The Lord also will be a refuge for the oppressed.
3. An expedient to secure protection or defense; a device or contrivance.
Their latest refuge Was to send him.
Light must be supplied, among gracefulrefuges, by terracing story in danger of darkness.
Cities of refuge (Jewish Antiq.), certain cities appointed as places of safe refuge for persons who had committed homicide without design. Of these there were three on each side of Jordan. Josh. xx. -- House of refuge, a charitable institution for giving shelter and protection to the homeless, destitute, or tempted. Syn. -- Shelter; asylum; retreat; covert.

Refuge

Ref"uge (r?f"?j), v. t. To shelter; to protect. [Obs.]

Shelter or protection from danger or distress.

To shelter; to protect.

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Usage Examples

I have heard show business characterized as a refuge for childlike persons in flight from all things harsh and real.

Even if I know I shall never change the masses, never transform anything permanent, all I ask is that the good things also have their place, their refuge.

My dreams were all my own I accounted for them to nobody they were my refuge when annoyed - my dearest pleasure when free.

Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.

Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.

Racism is a refuge for the ignorant. It seeks to divide and to destroy. It is the enemy of freedom, and deserves to be met head-on and stamped out.

The great advantage of a hotel is that it is a refuge from home life.

Music is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness.

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Other Usage Examples

I had this wild imagination. I was never me. All my childhood photos, I'm in fancy dress, playing a Russian refuge or Marvelous Mad Madam Mim.

Lawyers are the first refuge of the incompetent.

I do not consider divorce an evil by any means. It is just as much a refuge for women married to brutal men as Canada was to the slaves of brutal masters.

Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.

No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.

I'm an advocate of the great Dr. Johnson, the English man of letters who said that patriotism was the last refuge of the scoundrel.

Religion is the last refuge of human savagery.

Religion is all-too-often a refuge for scoundrels.

The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.

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