noun
- Housing that someone is living in.
- usage: "he built a modest dwelling near the pond"; "they raise money to provide homes for the homeless"
- synonyms: home, domicile, abode, habitation, dwelling house
verb
- Think moodily or anxiously about something.
- Originate (in. )
- usage: "The problems dwell in the social injustices in this country"
- Inhabit or live in; be an inhabitant of.
- usage: "People lived in Africa millions of years ago"; "The people inhabited the islands that are now deserted"; "this kind of fish dwells near the bottom of the ocean"; "deer are populating the woods"
- Exist or be situated within.
- usage: "Strange notions inhabited her mind"
- Come back to.
- usage: "Don't dwell on the past"; "She is always harping on the same old things"
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