verb · irregular · intransitive · rare

dwell

dwell · dwells · dwelt / dwelled · dwelling

жити, проживати, мешкати

жить, проживать, обитать

leben, wohnen, verbleiben, verweilen

To live; to resideTo live; to reside.

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/dwɛl/

» Don't dwell on your past failures.

Sorge dich nicht um deine vergangenen Fehler.

Не зацикливайся на своих прошлых ошибках.

Meaning

4 senses

(intransitive, literary)To live; to reside.
leben, verbleiben, wohnen
прожива́тьproživátʹ, житьžitʹ, обита́тьobitátʹ
ме́шкатиméškaty, жи́тиžýty, прожива́тиprožyváty
be an inhabitant of or reside in
(intransitive)To linger (on); to remain fixated.
Stop dwelling on the past!
(intransitive)To be in a given state.
(intransitive)To abide; to remain; to continue.
verweilen

Examples

91 sentences

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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Let's not dwell on past mistakes.
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Don't dwell on your past mistakes!
ruНе зацикливайся на своих прошлых ошибках. — odexed
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I don't remember where you dwell.
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We're not going to dwell on this.
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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):

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

Base form	dwell · to dwell
3rd person singular	dwells
Present participle	dwelling
Past simple	dwelt / dwelled
Past participle	dwelt / dwelled

irregular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, they	dwell
he, she, it	dwells

Past simpleLesson

all persons

dwelt

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, they	have dwelt
he, she, it	has dwelt

Future simple (will)Lesson

all persons

will dwell

Synonyms

8 synonyms

Close in meaning

originate (in):consist lie lie in
exist or be situated within:inhabit
think moodily or anxiously about something:brood
come back to:harp
be an inhabitant of or reside in:populate live inhabit

Word family

14 related words

Derivedbedwell bottom-dwelling dwellable dwell time indwell mud-dwelling outdwell surface-dwelling

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

A1Present simple — Because it is a verb
A1Past simple, irregular verbs — Because of its past form
A2Present perfect: introduction — Because of its past participle