réfugier
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Meanings
Verb
1. to take refuge (reflexive)
2. to give shelter to someone (transitive, dated)
3. to protect, to conceal something (transitive, dated)
Examples6
We're refugees.
The suspect was holed up in an abandoned factory.
The soldier took shelter in the foxhole.
The policemen surrounded the house in which he had been hiding.
We took refuge in a cave and waited for the storm to pass.
We took refuge from the storm in a nearby barn.