shelter
/ˈʃɛltɚ/ verb C2- To provide cover from damage or harassment; to shield; to protect.
- To take cover. · During the rainstorm, we sheltered under a tree.
He/she/it shelters · Past sheltered · Past participle sheltered · -ing form sheltering
Verb forms
- Base form
- shelter
- He/she/it
- shelters
- Past
- sheltered
- Past participle
- sheltered
- -ing form
- sheltering
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The walk being here less sheltered than on the other side, allowed them to see him before they met.
Yet may we shelter ourselves in the infinite goodness of Providence, which would not forever punish the innocent beyond that third or fourth generation which is threatened in Holy Writ.
At the same moment the convict screamed out a curse at us and hurled a rock which splintered up against the boulder which had sheltered us.
A STAG, roundly chased by the hounds and blinded by fear to the danger he was running into, took shelter in a farmyard and hid himself in a shed among the oxen.
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