dwell

[Dwell]

To dwell in a home is to live in it. To dwell on something usually something bad, like a failed romance or terrible service in a restaurant – is to think or speak about it at great length.

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To delay; to linger.

Verb
think moodily or anxiously about something

Verb
come back to; "Don''t dwell on the past"; "She is always harping on the same old things"

Verb
make one''s home or live in; "She resides officially in Iceland"; "I live in a 200-year old house"; "These people inhabited all the islands that are now deserted"; "The plains are sparsely populated"

Verb
originate (in); "The problems dwell in the social injustices in this country"

v. i.
To delay; to linger.

v. i.
To abide; to remain; to continue.

v. i.
To abide as a permanent resident, or for a time; to live in a place; to reside.

v. t.
To inhabit.

Dwell

Dwell , v. i. [imp. & p. p. Dwelled , usually contracted into Dwelt (); p. pr. & vb. n. Dwelling.] [OE. dwellen, dwelien, to err, linger, AS. dwellan to deceive, hinder, delay, dwelian to err; akin to Icel. dvelja to delay, tarry, Sw. dv'84ljas to dwell, Dan. dv'91le to linger, and to E. dull. See Dull, and cf. Dwale.] 1. To delay; to linger. [Obs.] 2. To abide; to remain; to continue.

I 'll rather dwell in my necessity.

Thy soul was like a star and dwelt apart.

3. To abide as a permanent resident, or for a time; to live in a place; to reside.

The parish in which I was born, dwell, and have possessions.

The poor man dwells in a humble cottage near the hall where the lord of the domain resides.

To dwell in, to abide in (a place); hence, to depend on. "My hopes in heaven to dwell." Shak. -- To dwell on ∨ upon, to continue long on or in; to remain absorbed with; to stick to; to make much of; as, to dwell upon a subject; a singer dwells on a note.

They stand at a distance, dwelling on his looks and language, fixed in amazement.

Syn. -- To inhabit; live; abide; sojourn; reside; continue; stay; rest.

Dwell

Dwell , v. t. To inhabit. [R.] Milton.

To delay; to linger.

To inhabit.

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Usage Examples

Every year of my life I grow more convinced that it is wisest and best to fix our attention on the beautiful and the good, and dwell as little as possible on the evil and the false.

Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.

I wouldn't change one thing about my professional life, and I make it a point not to dwell on my mistakes.

It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.

It is not known precisely where angels dwell whether in the air, the void, or the planets. It has not been God's pleasure that we should be informed of their abode.

God has been very good to me, for I never dwell upon anything wrong which a person has done, so as to remember it afterwards. If I do remember it, I always see some other virtue in that person.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

Gay writers now have both a sense of history and the fables that allows them to dwell in the realms of the ridiculous and at the same time talk seriously about things.

Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.

Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.

But you cannot expect every writer to dwell on human suffering. I think my books do deal with grave issues. People who say they are too positive probably haven't read them.

I've felt that if you dwell too much on your errors, you're dealing in the negativity of things. I don't like that. I'd rather work on the positive reinforcement, the things I did well.

But I am convinced that those Jews who stand aside today with a malicious smile and with their hands in their trousers' pockets will also want to dwell in our beautiful home.

I don't dwell on success. Maybe that's one reason I'm successful.