dwell
Verb
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Think moodily or anxiously about something (synset 200706015)
same as: brood
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Originate (in) (synset 202659476)
"The problems dwell in the social injustices in this country"
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Be an inhabitant of or reside in (synset 202655932)
"People lived in Africa millions of years ago"; "The people inhabited the islands that are now deserted"; "this kind of fish dwells near the bottom of the ocean"; "deer are populating the woods"is a type of: be - occupy a certain position or area; be somewheresubtypes:
- tenant - occupy as a tenant
- neighbor, neighbour - live or be located as a neighbor
- lodge in, occupy, reside - live (in a certain place)
- domicile, domiciliate, reside, shack - make one's home in a particular place or community
- people - furnish with people
- overpopulate - cause to have too great a population
- cohabit, live together, shack up - share living quarters; usually said of people who are not married and live together as a couple
- lodge - be a lodger; stay temporarily
- bivouac, camp, camp out, encamp, tent - live in or as if in a tent
- nest - inhabit a nest, usually after building
- board, room - live and take one's meals at or in
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Exist or be situated within (synset 202761648)
"Strange notions inhabited her mind"same as: inhabit
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Come back to (synset 200961399)
"Don't dwell on the past"; "She is always harping on the same old things"is a type of: ingeminate, iterate, reiterate, repeat, restate, retell - to say, state, or perform againsame as: harp
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