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. Isaac Mashman:

   To dwell on the lack thereof is a mental trap the majority of visionaries are taught to do.

2. Christen Kuikoua:

   Though death is unavoidable, to dwell in sorrow is a different form of demise.

3. Oprah Winfrey:

   Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possiblity.

4. Petrarch:

   Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.

5. Oprah Winfrey:

   I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.