dwell
verb /dwel/
/dwel/
[intransitive] (formal or literary)Verb Forms
Phrasal Verbs| present simple I / you / we / they dwell | /dwel/ /dwel/ |
| he / she / it dwells | /dwelz/ /dwelz/ |
| past simple dwelt | /dwelt/ /dwelt/ |
| past participle dwelt | /dwelt/ /dwelt/ |
| past simple dwelled | /dweld/ /dweld/ |
| past participle dwelled | /dweld/ /dweld/ |
| -ing form dwelling | /ˈdwelɪŋ/ /ˈdwelɪŋ/ |
- + adv./prep. to live somewhere
- He dwelt in a ruined cottage on the hillside.
- For ten years she dwelled among the nomads of North America.
- The gorillas dwell in the high rainforests of Rwanda.
Word OriginOld English dwellan ‘lead astray, hinder, delay’ (in Middle English ‘tarry, remain in a place’), of Germanic origin; related to Middle Dutch dwellen ‘stun, perplex’ and Old Norse dvelja ‘delay, tarry, stay’.