dwell
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(verb) make one's home or live in; "There are only 250,000 people in Island" |
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Synonyms: inhabit, live, people, populate, reside, shack |
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Related Words: be, bivouac, board, camp, camp out, cohabit, encamp, lodge, lodge in, neighbor, neighbour, occupy, reside, room, rusticate, shack up |
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(verb) originate (in); "The problems dwell in the social injustices in this country" |
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Synonyms: belong, consist, lie, lie in |
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Related Words: appertain, be, exist, inhere, pertain |
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(verb) come back to; "Don't dwell on the past" |
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Synonyms: harp |
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Related Words: ingeminate, iterate, reiterate, repeat, restate, retell |
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(verb) think moodily or anxiously about something |
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Synonyms: brood, worry |
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Related Words: chew over, contemplate, meditate, mull, mull over, muse, ponder, reflect, ruminate, speculate, think over |
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