refuge
/ˈɹɛfjuːd͡ʒ/ verb C2- To return to a place of shelter.
He/she/it refuges · Past refuged · Past participle refuged · -ing form refuging
Verb forms
- Base form
- refuge
- He/she/it
- refuges
- Past
- refuged
- Past participle
- refuged
- -ing form
- refuging
From the library
Marilla gave a gasp of helplessness and took refuge in silence.
A DOE hard pressed by hunters sought refuge in a cave belonging to a Lion.
Finally he took refuge in a somewhat acrid irony.
It was there that he kept his hound and there also he had made preparations so that he might have a refuge.
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