Den and Refuge

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Den noun - A place where a person goes to hide or to avoid others.

Usage example: an abandoned building that is often used as a den by the city's petty criminals

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Refuge is a synonym for den in hideaway topic. In some cases you can use "Refuge" instead a noun "Den".

Refuge noun - Something (as a building) that offers cover from the weather or protection from danger.

Usage example: hunting is strictly forbidden in the wildlife refuge

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Den is a synonym for refuge in hideaway topic. You can use "Den" instead a noun "Refuge", if it concerns topics such as have privacy.

Nearby Words: refugee, refugia

old	old den	old refuge
usual	usual den	usual refuge
real	real den	real refuge
massive	massive den	massive refuge
Other adjectives: huge, underground, last, bigger.

In Rogue Male it looks as if this will be the fate of the hunter-turned-hunted protagonist when he is tracked down and trapped in the secret den he dug as a last refuge, scarcely bigger than a coffin.

Source: Buried Alive
In Rogue Male the protagonist goes from being a cool aristocrat stalking his human prey (a European dictator) with a rifle to being a hunted animal, literally driven to earth in a den he had dug as a last refuge.

Source: The Hunter Becomes the Hunted

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