Dictionary Entry
dwell
dwell is a 5-letter English word with 9 senses as intransitive verb, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To delay; to linger. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
5 letters · Scrabble 9 · Words With Friends 11 · 9 senses
Definitions
- 1intransitive verb
To delay; to linger.
- 2intransitive verb
To abide; to remain; to continue.
- 3intransitive verb
To abide as a permanent resident, or for a time; to live in a place; to reside.
- 4transitive verb
To inhabit.
- 5verb
think moodily or anxiously about something
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- 6verb
come back to
"Don't dwell on the past"
"She is always harping on the same old things"
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- 7verb
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"
- 8verb
originate (in)
"The problems dwell in the social injustices in this country"
- 9verb
exist or be situated within
"Strange notions inhabited her mind"
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