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sheltersnounpl. of shelter something (as a building) that offers cover from the weather or protection from dangerthe sudden fierce storm forced us to run to the nearest shelter asylums, bolt-holes(chiefly British), harborages, harbors, havens, refuges, retreats, sanctuaries, sanctums(also sancta) oasesanchorages, moorings, portscovers, screensabodes, diggings, domiciles, dwellings, habitations, houses, housings, lodgings, lodgments(or lodgements), pads, places, quarters, residences, rests, roofscloisters, closets, coverts, dens, hermitages, hideaways, hideouts, lairscastles, fortresses, forts, palisades, redoubts, strongholdslean-tos, lees, sheds, windbreaks sheltersverbpresent tense third-person singular of shelterto be or provide a shelter forthe abandoned barn shelters a colony of stray cats harbors, refuges covers, defends, protects, safeguards, screens, secures, shields, wardsdomiciles, houses, places, quartersshades, shadows exposes to provide with living quarters or sheltersheltered the troops in tents until permanent barracks could be built accommodates, bestows, billets, bivouacs, boards, bunks, camps, chambers, domiciles, encamps, harbors, houses, lodges, puts up, quarters, roofs, rooms, takes in ensconces, homes, roosts, secures, sheds, stables, tentsbarracksbeds (down) ejects, evicts |