How to pronounce“asylum”in English
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Definitions of “asylum”
A place of safety or refuge.
“All the busy concerns of daily existence were utterly abhorrent to me. I loathed the sound of others' voices—I hated to be mixed up with their petty routine of ordinary cares; here was an asylum offered to me—here I might lay down all the offices of humanity, and dwell beside that grave whose rest was now my only desire.”
The protection, physical and legal, afforded by such a place (as, for example, for political refugees).
“So lawyers started filing separate asylum requests for the children, arguing that reintegrating in countries they barely knew, after spending their childhood or adolescence in Belgium, would not only be impossible but would expose them to serious risks.”
to place in an asylum
“It was she who in the last few years had spread abroad the notion that Charles Nagle, in the public interest, should be asylumed.”
to grant protection or refuge
“We have..sheltered its paupers, asylumed its orphans, clothed its nakedness.”
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