Translations

8 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
live, reside:
Русский
By meaning 1
live, reside:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
live, reside:
to continue to think or talk about (something or someone):

Examples

90 sentences

  1. Don't dwell on your past failures.

    ruНе зацикливайся на своих прошлых ошибках. — odexed

    deSorge dich nicht um deine vergangenen Fehler. — Ennocb

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  2. Let's not dwell on past mistakes.

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  3. Don't dwell on your past mistakes!

    ruНе зацикливайся на своих прошлых ошибках. — odexed

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Meaning

4 senses

  1. (intransitive, literary)To live; to reside.

    leben, verbleiben, wohnen

    прожива́тьproživátʹ, житьžitʹ, обита́тьobitátʹ

    ме́шкатиméškaty, жи́тиžýty, прожива́тиprožyváty

  2. (intransitive)To abide; to remain; to continue.

    verweilen

  3. (intransitive)To linger (on); to remain fixated.

    Stop dwelling on the past!

  4. (intransitive)To be in a given state.

More definitions
  • think moodily or anxiously about something
  • originate (in)
  • be an inhabitant of or reside in
  • exist or be situated within

Origin

From Middle English dwellen (“delay, live, remain, persist”), from Old English dwellan (“t

From Middle English dwellen (“delay, live, remain, persist”), from Old English dwellan (“to mislead, deceive; be led into error, stray”), from Proto-Germanic *dwaljaną (“to hold up, delay; hesitate”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰwelH- (“to whirl, swirl, blur, obfuscate”), which is cognate with Old Norse dvelja and related to Proto-Germanic *dwelaną (“to go astray”), which underwent semantic change in its descendants. Cognates include Danish dvæle (“to linger, dwell”) and Swedish dväljas (“to dwell, reside”).

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Forms

dwells, dwelling, dwelt, dwelt

irregular · Lesson

Base formdwell · to dwell
3rd person singulardwells
Present participledwelling
Past simpledwelt / dwelled
Past participledwelt / dwelled

Tenses

dwell · dwelt · will dwell · have dwelt

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Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theydwell
he, she, itdwells

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave dwelt
he, she, ithas dwelt

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill dwell

Past simpleLesson

all personsdwelt

Synonyms

8 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

14 related words
RelatedliveA1stayA1dwellingabideresidedweller
Derivedbedwellbottom-dwellingdwellabledwell timeindwellmud-dwellingoutdwellsurface-dwelling

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
duvetB1dwarfB2dwellerdwellingdwindledyad

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