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1 —as in:
Don't dwell on it.

Definition

to think, communicate, or let attention stay on (or return to) something for a prolonged period

Don't dwell on the past.

dwell = think or talk about something longer than seems appropriate

Other Uses (with this meaning)

Her students were ready to move on, but she dwelled on about Chapter 7.

dwelled = focused for a long time

I've got to stop dwelling on this.
Anne Frank -- The Diary of a Young Girl

dwelling = letting attention stay on something

It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live, remember that.
J.K. Rowling -- Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

dwell = think excessively about

I didn't have time to dwell on my worries.
Kiera Cass -- The Selection

dwell = think excessively about

Lately, a few vague thoughts of marriage to Chase had formed in her mind, but she had not dared dwell on them.
Delia Owens -- Where the Crawdads Sing

dwell = focus (let attention stay)

I will not dwell on the experience because it causes us all terrible discomfort.
Lois Lowry -- The Giver

dwell = talk longer

"She's fine," he said without dwelling on his wife.
Mildred D. Taylor -- Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry

dwelling = continuing to talk (about something)

Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.
Jane Austen -- Mansfield Park

dwell = talk excessively (about something)

It said this over and over again, and as it dwelt on it, anxiety mounted in every heart that heaved on a bamboo bed that night.
Chinua Achebe -- Things Fall Apart

dwelt = focused

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2 —as in:
It dwells in the forest.

Definition

make one's home in; or to live in; or to stay (in a place)

The creature dwells in the forest.

dwells = lives in

Other Uses (with this meaning)

There family has dwelled in that valley for ten generations.

dwelled = lived

There in captivity he lets them dwell
John Milton -- Paradise Lost

dwell = live there

He chose an alias, Saburo Ohta, a common name unlikely to attract notice or dwell in anyone's memory.
Laura Hillenbrand -- Unbroken

dwell = live or remain

"But value dwells not in particular will," said the Savage.
Aldous Huxley -- Brave New World

dwells = lives

I do remember an apothecary—
And hereabouts he dwells,
William Shakespeare -- Romeo and Juliet

dwells = lives

Never would she have taken a barefoot marsh dweller as a daughter-in-law.
Delia Owens -- Where the Crawdads Sing

dweller = one who lives in a place

That the spirit of the Lord cannot dwell in an unclean vessel, and that no vessel is clean when it forsakes God and relies on man.
Tara Westover -- Educated

dwell = live

There have been from the loins of this very one great men and good women, and their graves make sacred the earth where alone this foulness can dwell.
Bram Stoker -- Dracula

dwell = live

"You propose," replied I, "to fly from the habitations of man, to dwell in those wilds where the beasts of the field will be your only companions."
Mary Shelley -- Frankenstein

dwell = live

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3 —as in:
a modest dwelling

Definition

a house or shelter in which someone lives

There is a second dwelling unit on the property.

dwelling = home

Other Uses (with this meaning)

We searched the entire valley and did not find her dwelling.

dwelling = home

Go immediately to your dwelling at the conclusion of Training Hours each day.
Lois Lowry -- The Giver

dwelling = home

... and on the threshold of the door the Spirit smiled, and stopped to bless Bob Cratchit's dwelling with the sprinkling of his torch.
Charles Dickens -- A Christmas Carol

dwelling = home

He turned his outsized pickup onto the track and cruised quietly toward the dwelling, easing to a stop fifty feet from the door.
Delia Owens -- Where the Crawdads Sing

dwelling = home

Crumbling stone dwellings of the long-vanished Kayenta Anasazi, the creators of this rock art, nestle in protective nooks.
Jon Krakauer -- Into the Wild

dwellings = homes

...they reached the dwelling of Governor Bellingham.
Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The Scarlet Letter

dwelling = home

(every ruin in India becomes sooner or later a dwelling place of snakes, and the old summerhouse was alive with cobras)
Rudyard Kipling -- The Jungle Book

dwelling = home

On examining my dwelling, I found that one of the windows of the cottage had formerly occupied a part of it, but the panes had been filled up with wood.
Mary Shelley -- Frankenstein

dwelling = home

It was only on very rare occasions that one saw inside the dwelling-places of the Inner Party, or even penetrated into the quarter of the town where they lived.
George Orwell -- 1984

dwelling = living

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