transcription, транскрипция: [ refju:dʒ ]
( refuges)
1.
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.
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2.
A refuge is a place where you go for safety and protection, for example from violence or from bad weather.
...a refuge for battered women...
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3.
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.
All too often, they get bored, and seek refuge in drink and drugs...
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