Definition of refuge in English:

refuge

noun ˈrɛfjuːdʒ

mass noun

1The state of being safe or sheltered from pursuit, danger, or difficulty.
避难；庇护
he was forced to take refuge in the French embassy
他被迫躲进法国大使馆。
I sought refuge in drink
我以喝酒来逃避。
Example sentencesExamples
- But the Convention only provides refuge from state persecution.
- International law says that seeking refuge from persecution is not a crime.
- The deportation of an asylum seeker who sought refuge in Bolton has been halted following the intervention of MP David Crausby.
- However, most of the residents preferred to stay home instead of taking refuge elsewhere.
- He was given refuge in Libya by his long time ally, Colonel Gaddafi.
- They have simply sought refuge from persecution: they are refugees.
- Needless to say, I sought refuge in a discussion of the weather.
- That was probably why he was often haunted by spells of melancholia and dark thoughts and often sought refuge in books.
- This was not difficult, given that less than 15 per cent of people sought refuge in public shelters or tube stations.
- More than 30,000 people are reported to have died and nearly 400,000 civilians sought refuge across the border in Ethiopia.
- Since then, half the country's more than 3 million people have sought refuge in the capital, Monrovia.
- But one most often sought refuge in sanctuaries.
- Thousands of people have sought refuge in army bases and police stations.
- He said he accepted she was one of life's inadequates who sought refuge in drink and was prone to self-harm.
- We are only travellers taking temporary refuge in this life and body.
- However, the cunning female kept dodging them, taking temporary refuge in the grounds of Fermoy Soccer Club.
- Angola is relatively urbanized because in the 1980s many people sought refuge in the safer urban areas.
- Smoke could be seen billowing from many parts of the city where thousands of Madurese have sought refuge in military compounds and government offices.
- While the rest of us were toiling in Pattaya, a small group sought refuge in the mountain retreat of Soi Dao.
Synonyms
haven, safe haven, shelter, sanctuary, retreat, asylum, place of safety, place of security, port in a storm, oasis, sanctum
1. 1.1count noun A place or situation providing safety or shelter.
  the family came to be seen as a refuge from a harsh world
  家庭被看成是躲避残酷世界的地方。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Does Eden offer a refuge from the world or the wisdom to accept it?
  In the late 15th century, the city became a refuge for Iberian Jews expelled by Phillip II from Spain.
  I led the fight to stop the drilling in the Arctic wildlife refuge.
  Upland's owners bought and renovated the hotel three years ago, as a refuge from a high-powered life in the capital city.
  ' Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel ', pronounced Samuel Johnson in 1775.
  Well, the Senate today narrowly approved a plan to drill for oil in Alaska's arctic national wildlife refuge.
  There was kind of a coup, and he took temporary refuge in the United States.
  For hundreds of years Turkey was a refuge for Jews driven from " civilised " Christian Europe.
  Absolute moral standards provide a safe refuge for those frightened to exercise discretion.
  In my younger and more vulnerable years, I believed school offered a gentle refuge from the cutthroat savagery of the working world.
  Churches have become the only refuge for people who have lost everything.
  Mothers were torn between their need to support the discipline of their sons and their desire to provide a refuge from the harshness of that discipline.
  The pine-shaded forest is a refuge from the city's extreme summer temperatures.
  But this bar is a great refuge from the madness of weekend London.
  Instead she buried herself in the library, which became a refuge from the decadent student world.
  In the novel, a young housemaid named Griet innocently entrances Vermeer who comes to see her as a sacred refuge from a soulless marriage.
  Researchers found that the forest offered a refuge for bee species, which helped pollinate coffee plants.
  After all, home and family should provide a refuge from the clamor of the outside world.
  For many of these young MPs the canteen is proving a refuge from the long-drawn speeches and verbal duels in the House.
  To learn more about Banerjee and his time in the Arctic refuge, click here.
  Synonyms
  shelter, protection, safety, security, asylum, sanctuary
  preservation, safe keeping
  sanctuary, place of shelter, shelter, place of safety, haven, safe haven, sanctum, safe house, harbour, port in a storm, ark
  retreat, bolt-hole, foxhole, hiding place, hideaway, hideout, fastness
  Spanish querencia
2. 1.2count noun An institution providing safe accommodation for women who have suffered violence from a spouse or partner.
  （受虐待妇女的）庇护所
  Example sentencesExamples
  She appealed to the government to raise the profile of refuges for victims of violence and helplines.
  Women are flocking to refuges and violent partners are moving back into the family home following the outlawing of temporary barring orders, according to women's aid groups.
  The Family Law Act 1996 protects victims of domestic violence and their children, and there are safe refuges and on-going support for families getting away from violent situations.
  For many years Bendigo-based Julie Oberin was Chair of the Women's Services Network, the peak body for women's domestic violence services, including refuges.
  I was involved in a single-issue campaign - domestic violence and women's refuges - but that didn't mean that I thought politics was about single issues.
  Over time, physical conditions in the East Anglian refuges have improved and accommodation is no longer squalid and over-crowded.
  Through our social centres, soup runs, hostels, refuges, detox centres, community cafes, day care and residential homes, we get through a lot of tea and coffee.
  She said its aims were to encourage more women to report violent incidents in the home and to reverse the trend whereby women and children had little option but to flee to refuges and temporary accommodation.
  While police and magistrates take punitive action to try to stop physical assaults, and refuges provide a safe haven for women and children trying to escape violence, curing such violence is not easy.
  The issue of domestic violence and the absence of a refuge for women who want to escape abusive partners in Sligo was raised.
  Given the prevalence of domestic violence, women's refuges are essential facilities.
  There is also a network of refuges, in every county except Carlow, some transitional accommodation in Waterford and some limited outreach and settlement support services.
  Thus, women's refuges were among the first projects to have been realised.
  He said there are only five emergency hostels and refuges in Dublin providing a total of 50 units for families.
  In investigating domestic violence, it is tempting for academics to speak to only those more easily accessible women who are resident in refuges, rather than other victims.
  Children at the York women's refuge were facing a bleak Christmas.
  She moved in with Young as a teenager and the couple had three children, but she fled to a woman's refuge after suffering violent beatings.
  Women's refuges, local hospices and day centres are also members of the Scrapstore.
  And if their ‘crime’ was to donate 4,000 pairs of footwear to the workhouses, women's refuges and orphanages of war-torn Kosovo, then it was guilty as charged.
3. 1.3British count noun A traffic island.
  〈英〉（街道中央的）避车岛，安全岛
  Example sentencesExamples
  ‘There are likely to be central pedestrian refuges up to 1.8 metres wide,’ said planning officer Sian Watson.
  What we are looking at is either traffic lights or possibly a roundabout, because a traffic island and refuge would only benefit car users and not public transport.
  This will be impossible if there is a pedestrian refuge in the middle of the road.
  There, roads are generally free of cycle lanes, red or green painted patches, pedestrian refuges, traffic islands, widened pavements for cycle use and silly speed limits.
  Traffic calming proposals included the creation of a central refuge at the west end of the village to help elderly people cross the road.
  Raised medians at the centre of the carriageway could also serve as pedestrian refuges.

Origin

Late Middle English: from Old French, from Latin refugium, from Latin re- 'back' + fugere 'flee'.

fever from Old English:
Fever has been with us since Anglo-Saxon times, when we borrowed the word from Latin febris. A fever makes you hot and bothered, and the word may ultimately go back to a root meaning ‘to be restless’. In herbal medicine the plant feverfew (Old English) was traditionally seen as a cure for fever. In Latin the name was febrifugia, from febris ‘fever’ and fugare ‘drive away’, from which we get the medical term febrifuge (late 17th century) for a drug that reduces fever. Closely related to fugare is fugere ‘to flee’ found in fugitive (Late Middle English), refuge (Late Middle English), and refugee (late 17th century).

Definition of refuge in US English:

refuge

noun

1A condition of being safe or sheltered from pursuit, danger, or trouble.
避难；庇护
he was forced to take refuge in the French embassy
他被迫躲进法国大使馆。
I sought refuge in drink
我以喝酒来逃避。
Example sentencesExamples
- That was probably why he was often haunted by spells of melancholia and dark thoughts and often sought refuge in books.
- Thousands of people have sought refuge in army bases and police stations.
- Smoke could be seen billowing from many parts of the city where thousands of Madurese have sought refuge in military compounds and government offices.
- The deportation of an asylum seeker who sought refuge in Bolton has been halted following the intervention of MP David Crausby.
- This was not difficult, given that less than 15 per cent of people sought refuge in public shelters or tube stations.
- He said he accepted she was one of life's inadequates who sought refuge in drink and was prone to self-harm.
- However, the cunning female kept dodging them, taking temporary refuge in the grounds of Fermoy Soccer Club.
- He was given refuge in Libya by his long time ally, Colonel Gaddafi.
- While the rest of us were toiling in Pattaya, a small group sought refuge in the mountain retreat of Soi Dao.
- But the Convention only provides refuge from state persecution.
- But one most often sought refuge in sanctuaries.
- More than 30,000 people are reported to have died and nearly 400,000 civilians sought refuge across the border in Ethiopia.
- We are only travellers taking temporary refuge in this life and body.
- Needless to say, I sought refuge in a discussion of the weather.
- However, most of the residents preferred to stay home instead of taking refuge elsewhere.
- International law says that seeking refuge from persecution is not a crime.
- They have simply sought refuge from persecution: they are refugees.
- Since then, half the country's more than 3 million people have sought refuge in the capital, Monrovia.
- Angola is relatively urbanized because in the 1980s many people sought refuge in the safer urban areas.
Synonyms
haven, safe haven, shelter, sanctuary, retreat, asylum, place of safety, place of security, port in a storm, oasis, sanctum
1. 1.1 Something providing shelter.
  避难所，收容所
  the family came to be seen as a refuge from a harsh world
  家庭被看成是躲避残酷世界的地方。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Researchers found that the forest offered a refuge for bee species, which helped pollinate coffee plants.
  Absolute moral standards provide a safe refuge for those frightened to exercise discretion.
  After all, home and family should provide a refuge from the clamor of the outside world.
  Churches have become the only refuge for people who have lost everything.
  Instead she buried herself in the library, which became a refuge from the decadent student world.
  But this bar is a great refuge from the madness of weekend London.
  For hundreds of years Turkey was a refuge for Jews driven from " civilised " Christian Europe.
  To learn more about Banerjee and his time in the Arctic refuge, click here.
  In my younger and more vulnerable years, I believed school offered a gentle refuge from the cutthroat savagery of the working world.
  Upland's owners bought and renovated the hotel three years ago, as a refuge from a high-powered life in the capital city.
  The pine-shaded forest is a refuge from the city's extreme summer temperatures.
  Does Eden offer a refuge from the world or the wisdom to accept it?
  For many of these young MPs the canteen is proving a refuge from the long-drawn speeches and verbal duels in the House.
  Mothers were torn between their need to support the discipline of their sons and their desire to provide a refuge from the harshness of that discipline.
  There was kind of a coup, and he took temporary refuge in the United States.
  I led the fight to stop the drilling in the Arctic wildlife refuge.
  Well, the Senate today narrowly approved a plan to drill for oil in Alaska's arctic national wildlife refuge.
  In the novel, a young housemaid named Griet innocently entrances Vermeer who comes to see her as a sacred refuge from a soulless marriage.
  In the late 15th century, the city became a refuge for Iberian Jews expelled by Phillip II from Spain.
  ' Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel ', pronounced Samuel Johnson in 1775.
  Synonyms
  shelter, protection, safety, security, asylum, sanctuary
  sanctuary, place of shelter, shelter, place of safety, haven, safe haven, sanctum, safe house, harbour, port in a storm, ark
2. 1.2 An institution providing safe accommodations for women who have suffered violence from a spouse or partner.
  （受虐待妇女的）庇护所
  Example sentencesExamples
  And if their ‘crime’ was to donate 4,000 pairs of footwear to the workhouses, women's refuges and orphanages of war-torn Kosovo, then it was guilty as charged.
  Children at the York women's refuge were facing a bleak Christmas.
  Over time, physical conditions in the East Anglian refuges have improved and accommodation is no longer squalid and over-crowded.
  I was involved in a single-issue campaign - domestic violence and women's refuges - but that didn't mean that I thought politics was about single issues.
  He said there are only five emergency hostels and refuges in Dublin providing a total of 50 units for families.
  She said its aims were to encourage more women to report violent incidents in the home and to reverse the trend whereby women and children had little option but to flee to refuges and temporary accommodation.
  She moved in with Young as a teenager and the couple had three children, but she fled to a woman's refuge after suffering violent beatings.
  The issue of domestic violence and the absence of a refuge for women who want to escape abusive partners in Sligo was raised.
  Thus, women's refuges were among the first projects to have been realised.
  She appealed to the government to raise the profile of refuges for victims of violence and helplines.
  Women's refuges, local hospices and day centres are also members of the Scrapstore.
  Women are flocking to refuges and violent partners are moving back into the family home following the outlawing of temporary barring orders, according to women's aid groups.
  There is also a network of refuges, in every county except Carlow, some transitional accommodation in Waterford and some limited outreach and settlement support services.
  In investigating domestic violence, it is tempting for academics to speak to only those more easily accessible women who are resident in refuges, rather than other victims.
  Through our social centres, soup runs, hostels, refuges, detox centres, community cafes, day care and residential homes, we get through a lot of tea and coffee.
  The Family Law Act 1996 protects victims of domestic violence and their children, and there are safe refuges and on-going support for families getting away from violent situations.
  Given the prevalence of domestic violence, women's refuges are essential facilities.
  While police and magistrates take punitive action to try to stop physical assaults, and refuges provide a safe haven for women and children trying to escape violence, curing such violence is not easy.
  For many years Bendigo-based Julie Oberin was Chair of the Women's Services Network, the peak body for women's domestic violence services, including refuges.

Origin

Late Middle English: from Old French, from Latin refugium, from Latin re- ‘back’ + fugere ‘flee’.

词汇	refuge
释义	Definition of refuge in English: refuge noun ˈrɛfjuːdʒ mass noun 1The state of being safe or sheltered from pursuit, danger, or difficulty. 避难；庇护 he was forced to take refuge in the French embassy 他被迫躲进法国大使馆。 I sought refuge in drink 我以喝酒来逃避。 Example sentencesExamples But the Convention only provides refuge from state persecution. International law says that seeking refuge from persecution is not a crime. The deportation of an asylum seeker who sought refuge in Bolton has been halted following the intervention of MP David Crausby. However, most of the residents preferred to stay home instead of taking refuge elsewhere. He was given refuge in Libya by his long time ally, Colonel Gaddafi. They have simply sought refuge from persecution: they are refugees. Needless to say, I sought refuge in a discussion of the weather. That was probably why he was often haunted by spells of melancholia and dark thoughts and often sought refuge in books. This was not difficult, given that less than 15 per cent of people sought refuge in public shelters or tube stations. More than 30,000 people are reported to have died and nearly 400,000 civilians sought refuge across the border in Ethiopia. Since then, half the country's more than 3 million people have sought refuge in the capital, Monrovia. But one most often sought refuge in sanctuaries. Thousands of people have sought refuge in army bases and police stations. He said he accepted she was one of life's inadequates who sought refuge in drink and was prone to self-harm. We are only travellers taking temporary refuge in this life and body. However, the cunning female kept dodging them, taking temporary refuge in the grounds of Fermoy Soccer Club. Angola is relatively urbanized because in the 1980s many people sought refuge in the safer urban areas. Smoke could be seen billowing from many parts of the city where thousands of Madurese have sought refuge in military compounds and government offices. While the rest of us were toiling in Pattaya, a small group sought refuge in the mountain retreat of Soi Dao. Synonyms haven, safe haven, shelter, sanctuary, retreat, asylum, place of safety, place of security, port in a storm, oasis, sanctum 1.1count noun A place or situation providing safety or shelter. the family came to be seen as a refuge from a harsh world 家庭被看成是躲避残酷世界的地方。 Example sentencesExamples Does Eden offer a refuge from the world or the wisdom to accept it? In the late 15th century, the city became a refuge for Iberian Jews expelled by Phillip II from Spain. I led the fight to stop the drilling in the Arctic wildlife refuge. Upland's owners bought and renovated the hotel three years ago, as a refuge from a high-powered life in the capital city. ' Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel ', pronounced Samuel Johnson in 1775. Well, the Senate today narrowly approved a plan to drill for oil in Alaska's arctic national wildlife refuge. There was kind of a coup, and he took temporary refuge in the United States. For hundreds of years Turkey was a refuge for Jews driven from " civilised " Christian Europe. Absolute moral standards provide a safe refuge for those frightened to exercise discretion. In my younger and more vulnerable years, I believed school offered a gentle refuge from the cutthroat savagery of the working world. Churches have become the only refuge for people who have lost everything. Mothers were torn between their need to support the discipline of their sons and their desire to provide a refuge from the harshness of that discipline. The pine-shaded forest is a refuge from the city's extreme summer temperatures. But this bar is a great refuge from the madness of weekend London. Instead she buried herself in the library, which became a refuge from the decadent student world. In the novel, a young housemaid named Griet innocently entrances Vermeer who comes to see her as a sacred refuge from a soulless marriage. Researchers found that the forest offered a refuge for bee species, which helped pollinate coffee plants. After all, home and family should provide a refuge from the clamor of the outside world. For many of these young MPs the canteen is proving a refuge from the long-drawn speeches and verbal duels in the House. To learn more about Banerjee and his time in the Arctic refuge, click here. Synonyms shelter, protection, safety, security, asylum, sanctuary preservation, safe keeping sanctuary, place of shelter, shelter, place of safety, haven, safe haven, sanctum, safe house, harbour, port in a storm, ark retreat, bolt-hole, foxhole, hiding place, hideaway, hideout, fastness Spanish querencia 1.2count noun An institution providing safe accommodation for women who have suffered violence from a spouse or partner. （受虐待妇女的）庇护所 Example sentencesExamples She appealed to the government to raise the profile of refuges for victims of violence and helplines. Women are flocking to refuges and violent partners are moving back into the family home following the outlawing of temporary barring orders, according to women's aid groups. The Family Law Act 1996 protects victims of domestic violence and their children, and there are safe refuges and on-going support for families getting away from violent situations. For many years Bendigo-based Julie Oberin was Chair of the Women's Services Network, the peak body for women's domestic violence services, including refuges. I was involved in a single-issue campaign - domestic violence and women's refuges - but that didn't mean that I thought politics was about single issues. Over time, physical conditions in the East Anglian refuges have improved and accommodation is no longer squalid and over-crowded. Through our social centres, soup runs, hostels, refuges, detox centres, community cafes, day care and residential homes, we get through a lot of tea and coffee. She said its aims were to encourage more women to report violent incidents in the home and to reverse the trend whereby women and children had little option but to flee to refuges and temporary accommodation. While police and magistrates take punitive action to try to stop physical assaults, and refuges provide a safe haven for women and children trying to escape violence, curing such violence is not easy. The issue of domestic violence and the absence of a refuge for women who want to escape abusive partners in Sligo was raised. Given the prevalence of domestic violence, women's refuges are essential facilities. There is also a network of refuges, in every county except Carlow, some transitional accommodation in Waterford and some limited outreach and settlement support services. Thus, women's refuges were among the first projects to have been realised. He said there are only five emergency hostels and refuges in Dublin providing a total of 50 units for families. In investigating domestic violence, it is tempting for academics to speak to only those more easily accessible women who are resident in refuges, rather than other victims. Children at the York women's refuge were facing a bleak Christmas. She moved in with Young as a teenager and the couple had three children, but she fled to a woman's refuge after suffering violent beatings. Women's refuges, local hospices and day centres are also members of the Scrapstore. And if their ‘crime’ was to donate 4,000 pairs of footwear to the workhouses, women's refuges and orphanages of war-torn Kosovo, then it was guilty as charged. 1.3British count noun A traffic island. 〈英〉（街道中央的）避车岛，安全岛 Example sentencesExamples ‘There are likely to be central pedestrian refuges up to 1.8 metres wide,’ said planning officer Sian Watson. What we are looking at is either traffic lights or possibly a roundabout, because a traffic island and refuge would only benefit car users and not public transport. This will be impossible if there is a pedestrian refuge in the middle of the road. There, roads are generally free of cycle lanes, red or green painted patches, pedestrian refuges, traffic islands, widened pavements for cycle use and silly speed limits. Traffic calming proposals included the creation of a central refuge at the west end of the village to help elderly people cross the road. Raised medians at the centre of the carriageway could also serve as pedestrian refuges. Origin Late Middle English: from Old French, from Latin refugium, from Latin re- 'back' + fugere 'flee'. fever from Old English: Fever has been with us since Anglo-Saxon times, when we borrowed the word from Latin febris. A fever makes you hot and bothered, and the word may ultimately go back to a root meaning ‘to be restless’. In herbal medicine the plant feverfew (Old English) was traditionally seen as a cure for fever. In Latin the name was febrifugia, from febris ‘fever’ and fugare ‘drive away’, from which we get the medical term febrifuge (late 17th century) for a drug that reduces fever. Closely related to fugare is fugere ‘to flee’ found in fugitive (Late Middle English), refuge (Late Middle English), and refugee (late 17th century). Definition of refuge in US English: refuge noun 1A condition of being safe or sheltered from pursuit, danger, or trouble. 避难；庇护 he was forced to take refuge in the French embassy 他被迫躲进法国大使馆。 I sought refuge in drink 我以喝酒来逃避。 Example sentencesExamples That was probably why he was often haunted by spells of melancholia and dark thoughts and often sought refuge in books. Thousands of people have sought refuge in army bases and police stations. Smoke could be seen billowing from many parts of the city where thousands of Madurese have sought refuge in military compounds and government offices. The deportation of an asylum seeker who sought refuge in Bolton has been halted following the intervention of MP David Crausby. This was not difficult, given that less than 15 per cent of people sought refuge in public shelters or tube stations. He said he accepted she was one of life's inadequates who sought refuge in drink and was prone to self-harm. However, the cunning female kept dodging them, taking temporary refuge in the grounds of Fermoy Soccer Club. He was given refuge in Libya by his long time ally, Colonel Gaddafi. While the rest of us were toiling in Pattaya, a small group sought refuge in the mountain retreat of Soi Dao. But the Convention only provides refuge from state persecution. But one most often sought refuge in sanctuaries. More than 30,000 people are reported to have died and nearly 400,000 civilians sought refuge across the border in Ethiopia. We are only travellers taking temporary refuge in this life and body. Needless to say, I sought refuge in a discussion of the weather. However, most of the residents preferred to stay home instead of taking refuge elsewhere. International law says that seeking refuge from persecution is not a crime. They have simply sought refuge from persecution: they are refugees. Since then, half the country's more than 3 million people have sought refuge in the capital, Monrovia. Angola is relatively urbanized because in the 1980s many people sought refuge in the safer urban areas. Synonyms haven, safe haven, shelter, sanctuary, retreat, asylum, place of safety, place of security, port in a storm, oasis, sanctum 1.1 Something providing shelter. 避难所，收容所 the family came to be seen as a refuge from a harsh world 家庭被看成是躲避残酷世界的地方。 Example sentencesExamples Researchers found that the forest offered a refuge for bee species, which helped pollinate coffee plants. Absolute moral standards provide a safe refuge for those frightened to exercise discretion. After all, home and family should provide a refuge from the clamor of the outside world. Churches have become the only refuge for people who have lost everything. Instead she buried herself in the library, which became a refuge from the decadent student world. But this bar is a great refuge from the madness of weekend London. For hundreds of years Turkey was a refuge for Jews driven from " civilised " Christian Europe. To learn more about Banerjee and his time in the Arctic refuge, click here. In my younger and more vulnerable years, I believed school offered a gentle refuge from the cutthroat savagery of the working world. Upland's owners bought and renovated the hotel three years ago, as a refuge from a high-powered life in the capital city. The pine-shaded forest is a refuge from the city's extreme summer temperatures. Does Eden offer a refuge from the world or the wisdom to accept it? For many of these young MPs the canteen is proving a refuge from the long-drawn speeches and verbal duels in the House. Mothers were torn between their need to support the discipline of their sons and their desire to provide a refuge from the harshness of that discipline. There was kind of a coup, and he took temporary refuge in the United States. I led the fight to stop the drilling in the Arctic wildlife refuge. Well, the Senate today narrowly approved a plan to drill for oil in Alaska's arctic national wildlife refuge. In the novel, a young housemaid named Griet innocently entrances Vermeer who comes to see her as a sacred refuge from a soulless marriage. In the late 15th century, the city became a refuge for Iberian Jews expelled by Phillip II from Spain. ' Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel ', pronounced Samuel Johnson in 1775. Synonyms shelter, protection, safety, security, asylum, sanctuary sanctuary, place of shelter, shelter, place of safety, haven, safe haven, sanctum, safe house, harbour, port in a storm, ark 1.2 An institution providing safe accommodations for women who have suffered violence from a spouse or partner. （受虐待妇女的）庇护所 Example sentencesExamples And if their ‘crime’ was to donate 4,000 pairs of footwear to the workhouses, women's refuges and orphanages of war-torn Kosovo, then it was guilty as charged. Children at the York women's refuge were facing a bleak Christmas. Over time, physical conditions in the East Anglian refuges have improved and accommodation is no longer squalid and over-crowded. I was involved in a single-issue campaign - domestic violence and women's refuges - but that didn't mean that I thought politics was about single issues. He said there are only five emergency hostels and refuges in Dublin providing a total of 50 units for families. She said its aims were to encourage more women to report violent incidents in the home and to reverse the trend whereby women and children had little option but to flee to refuges and temporary accommodation. She moved in with Young as a teenager and the couple had three children, but she fled to a woman's refuge after suffering violent beatings. The issue of domestic violence and the absence of a refuge for women who want to escape abusive partners in Sligo was raised. Thus, women's refuges were among the first projects to have been realised. She appealed to the government to raise the profile of refuges for victims of violence and helplines. Women's refuges, local hospices and day centres are also members of the Scrapstore. Women are flocking to refuges and violent partners are moving back into the family home following the outlawing of temporary barring orders, according to women's aid groups. There is also a network of refuges, in every county except Carlow, some transitional accommodation in Waterford and some limited outreach and settlement support services. In investigating domestic violence, it is tempting for academics to speak to only those more easily accessible women who are resident in refuges, rather than other victims. Through our social centres, soup runs, hostels, refuges, detox centres, community cafes, day care and residential homes, we get through a lot of tea and coffee. The Family Law Act 1996 protects victims of domestic violence and their children, and there are safe refuges and on-going support for families getting away from violent situations. Given the prevalence of domestic violence, women's refuges are essential facilities. While police and magistrates take punitive action to try to stop physical assaults, and refuges provide a safe haven for women and children trying to escape violence, curing such violence is not easy. For many years Bendigo-based Julie Oberin was Chair of the Women's Services Network, the peak body for women's domestic violence services, including refuges. Origin Late Middle English: from Old French, from Latin refugium, from Latin re- ‘back’ + fugere ‘flee’.
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