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1. A safe place
   - safety
    
2. Something or someone turned to for assistance or security
   "took refuge in lying"
   - recourse, resort
    
3. A shelter from danger or hardship
   - sanctuary, asylum
    
4. Act of turning to for assistance
   - recourse, resort

Derived forms: refuges

Type of: aid, area, assist, assistance, country, help, resource, shelter

Encyclopedia: Refuge Refuge, Cities of Refuge, Sisters of Our Lady of Charity of the