dwell
/dwɛl/ verb C2- To live; to reside.
- To linger (on); to remain fixated. · Stop dwelling on the past!
- To be in a given state.
- To abide; to remain; to continue.
He/she/it dwells · Past dwelt · Past participle dwelt · -ing form dwelling
Verb forms
- Base form
- dwell
- He/she/it
- dwells
- Past
- dwelt
- Past participle
- dwelt
- -ing form
- dwelling
An irregular verb: learn its past and past participle by heart.
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Down hoods all!” said half a dozen low voices (every ruin in India becomes sooner or later a dwelling place of snakes, and the old summerhouse was alive with cobras).
You could imagine you were dwelling in marble halls, couldn’t you?
Her eyes dwelt affectionately on Green Gables, peering through its network of trees and reflecting the sunlight back from its windows in several little coruscations of glory.
But Elizabeth was not formed for ill-humour; and though every prospect of her own was destroyed for the evening, it could not dwell long on her spirits; and, having told all her griefs to Charlotte Lucas, whom she had not seen for a week, she was soon able to make a voluntary transition to the oddities of her cousin, and to point him out to her particular notice.
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