Synonymer

Uttal

  • UttalUS
  • UK:
    • IPA: /ˈʃɛl.tə/
  • US:
    • IPA: /ˈʃɛltɚ/
Översättning
Substantiv
1.sığınak
2.kodak

Definitioner

Substantiv

  1. A refuge, haven or other cover or protection from something.
  2. An institution that provides temporary housing for homeless people, battered women etc.

Verb

  1. (transitive) To provide cover from damage or harassment; to shield; to protect.
  2. (intransitive) To take cover.

Exempel

  • The detective kept them in view. He made his way casually along the inside of the shelter until he reached an open scuttle close to where the two men were standing talking. Eavesdropping was not a thing Larard would have practised from choice, but there were times when, in the public interest, he had to do it, and this was one of them.
  • Those ruins sheltered once his sacred head.
  • You have no convents [...] in which such persons may be received and sheltered.
  • During the rainstorm, we sheltered under a tree.
  • They were able to shelter in a cave during the storm.
  • The charitable organization sheltered the refugees.

Böjningsformer

Perfektparticipsheltered
Imperfektsheltered
Presensparticipsheltering
Pluralshelters
Tredje person singular indicativ presensshelters

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