noun
- shelter or protection from danger, trouble, etc.: to take refuge from a storm.
- a place of shelter, protection, or safety.
- anything to which one has recourse for aid, relief, or escape.
verb (used with object), ref·uged, ref·ug·ing.
- Archaic. to afford refuge to.
verb (used without object), ref·uged, ref·ug·ing.
- Archaic. to take refuge.
noun
- shelter or protection, as from the weather or danger
- any place, person, action, or thing that offers or appears to offer protection, help, or reliefaccused of incompetence, he took refuge in lying
- another name for traffic island
verb
- archaic to take refuge or give refuge to
“shelter or protection from danger or distress,” late 14c., from Old French refuge “hiding place” (12c.), from Latin refugium “a taking refuge; place to flee back to,” from re- “back” (see re-) + fugere “to flee” (see fugitive) + -ium “place for.”