• IPA: /ˈɹɛfjuːdʒ/

refuge

1. A state of safety, protection or shelter.
   • 1667, John Milton, “Book 9”, in Paradise Lost. A Poem Written in Ten Books, London: Printed [by Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […] [a]nd by Robert Boulter […] [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], OCLC 228722708 ↗; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: The Text Exactly Reproduced from the First Edition of 1667: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554 ↗:

     Rocks, dens, and caves! But I in none of these / Find place or refuge.

2. A place providing safety, protection or shelter.
3. Something or someone turned to for safety or assistance; a recourse or resort.
4. An expedient to secure protection or defence.
   • c. 1608–1609, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act V, scene iii]:

     Their latest refuge / Was to send him.

5. A refuge island.

• haven
• sanctuary
• zoar

• French: refuge
• German: Zuflucht
• Italian: rifugio, riparo
• Portuguese: refúgio, abrigo
• Russian: убе́жище
• Spanish: refugio

• French: refuge
• German: Herberge, Zuflucht
• Italian: rifugio
• Portuguese: refúgio, abrigo
• Russian: убе́жище
• Spanish: refugio

• Portuguese: refúgio

refuge (refuges, present participle refuging; past and past participle refuged)

1. (intransitive) To return to a place of shelter.
   • 2011, Michael D. Gumert, ‎Agustín Fuentes, ‎Lisa Jones-Engel, Monkeys on the Edge

     Among these macaques, although activity cycles are quite variable from location to location, refuging is a common characteristic.

2. (transitive, obsolete) To shelter; to protect.

• Spanish: refugiarse

• Spanish: refugiarse