Synonyms for dwell
dwɛldwell

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1. dwell

   To abide is to remain continuously without limit of time unless expressed by the context: "to-day I must abide at thy house," Luke xix, 5; "a settled place for thee to abide in forever," 1 Kings viii, 13; "Abide with me! fast falls the eventide," Lyte Hymn. Lodge, sojourn, stay, tarry, and wait always imply a limited time; lodge, to pass the night; sojourn, to remain temporarily; live, dwell, reside, to have a permanent home. Stop, in the sense of stay or sojourn, is colloquial, and not in approved use. Compare ENDURE; REST.

   Synonyms:
   abide, anticipate, await, bear, bide, confront, continue, endure, expect, inhabit, live, lodge, remain, reside, rest, sojourn, stay, stop, tarry, tolerate, wait, watch

   Antonyms:
   abandon, avoid, depart, forfeit, forfend, journey, migrate, move, proceed, reject, resist, shun

   Preposition:
   Abide in a place, for a time, with a person, by a statement.

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1. dwell

   Synonyms:
   stop, stay, rest, inhabit, sojourn, lodge, linger, tarry, live, reside, abide

   Antonyms:
   move, travel, hasten, speed, migrate, wander, depart, flit, roam

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1. brood, dwellverb

   think moodily or anxiously about something

   Synonyms:
   harp, live, stew, populate, pout, brood, bulk large, hatch, sulk, hover, lie, lie in, loom, cover, consist, grizzle, incubate, inhabit

2. dwell, consist, lie, lie inverb

   originate (in)

   "The problems dwell in the social injustices in this country"

   Synonyms:
   lie in, comprise, populate, harp, lie down, brood, live, lie, consist, rest, inhabit

3. populate, dwell, live, inhabitverb

   inhabit or live in; be an inhabitant of

   "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"

   Synonyms:
   go, exist, harp, live, hold out, populate, lie in, brood, be, experience, hold up, subsist, live on, lie, consist, endure, inhabit, survive, know, last

4. dwell, inhabitverb

   exist or be situated within

   "Strange notions inhabited her mind"

   Synonyms:
   lie in, populate, harp, brood, live, lie, consist, inhabit

5. harp, dwellverb

   come back to

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

   Synonyms:
   lie in, populate, harp, brood, live, lie, consist, inhabit

Matched Categories

1. • Exist
   • Repeat
   • Worry

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1. dwellverb

   Synonyms:
   inhabit, reside, live, stay, sojourn, tarry, abide, plant one's self, be settled, have a habitation

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1. List of paraphrases for "dwell":

   driveshaft, insist

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1. Henry David Thoreau:

   Dwell as near as possible to the channel in which your life flows.

2. Yvonne Padmos:

   I'd rather ascend mountains on repeat, with a home encircled by eagles, than dwell among city gazes, witnessing gossip and indifference towards fellow humans. For humans construct mountains, complicating lives, whereas a real mountain is simpler for me to conquer.

3. Petrarch:

   Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.

4. Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire:

   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.

5. George Bernard Shaw:

   Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long.