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. Stephen Snyder:

   I’m a Type A personality and I worry a lot about a lot of things — my family, my finances, the future, also, I’ve tended to dwell on things that happened in the past and get all worked up.

2. Rex Evans:

   Kade Dylan Contreras, just four years old, who was critically injured in Christmas Eve, has passed away. No longer shall he dwell here among the trials and tribulations of this life, this world. He now rests, laughs and loves among the Heaven above with the Angels.

3. Eileen Caddy:

   Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.

4. Jim:

   When you read about a car crash in which two or three youngsters are killed, do you pause to dwell on the amount of love and treasure and patience parents poured into bodies no longer suitable for open caskets

5. Margaret Halsey:

   Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's characters.