Room and Shelter

Room

Room verb - To provide with living quarters or shelter.

Usage example: we can room up to four visitors in our two guest bedrooms

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Shelter and room are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Shelter" instead the word "Room" as a verb or a noun.

Nearby Words: roomy, roomed, roomer, roominess, roomette

Shelter verb - To provide with living quarters or shelter.

Usage example: sheltered the troops in tents until permanent barracks could be built

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Room and shelter are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Room" instead the word "Shelter" as a verb or a noun.

old	old room	old shelter
full	full room	full shelter
safe	safe room	safe shelter
special	special room	special shelter
Other adjectives: specific, complete, free, single, small, entire, large, crowded, huge, tiny, black, private, secret, new, final, hidden, underground, nearby, giant.

room killer

shelter killer

The Fog Fall is a creepy escape-the-room (or rather escape-the-bomb-shelter) game set around a post-atomic disaster.

Source: Point-and-Click Game
A British soldier would have called out to me to take shelter and would have made room for me beside him.

Source: Useful Notes / Nepali With Nasty Knives
Everyone inside the house was thankful for the shelter as they gathered in the living room, trading glances.

Source: Roleplay / Video Game Edition Series

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