verb
- Keep or lay aside for future use.
- usage: "store grain for the winter"; "The bear stores fat for the period of hibernation when he doesn't eat"
- synonyms: store, hive away, put in, salt away, stack away, stash away
- Originate (in. )
- usage: "The problems dwell in the social injustices in this country"
- Be in confinement for childbirth.
- synonyms: lie in
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