All 6 Uses of
dwell
in
Harry Potter (#7) and the Deathly Hallows
- I'd like to appeal to all our listeners to emulate their example, perhaps by casting a protective charm over any Muggle dwellings in your street.†
Chpt 22 *dwellings = houses or shelters in which people live
- He did not understand it, but there was no time to dwell on the matter.†
Chpt 8
- He had soared from the windowsill like a bird, and Harry had seen him before, but he could not think where.... With Gregorovitch dead, it was the merry-faced thief who was in danger now, and it was on him that Harry's thoughts dwelled, as Ron's snores began to rumble from the lower bunk and as he himself drifted slowly into sleep once more.†
Chpt 14 *
- Apparently Voldemort was dwelling endlessly on the unknown youth with the gleeful face, whose name and whereabouts, Harry felt sure, Voldemort knew no better than he did.†
Chpt 15
- Most celebrated of these half-magical dwelling places is, perhaps, Godric's Hollow, the West Country village where the great wizard Godric Gryffindor was born, and where Bowman Wright, Wizarding smith, forged the first Golden Snitch.†
Chpt 16
- 'Gryffindor, where dwell the brave at heart!'†
Chpt 33 *
Definitions:
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(1)
(dwell as in: Don't dwell on it.) to think, communicate, or let attention stay on (or return to) something for a prolonged period
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(2)
(dwell as in: It dwells in the forest.) make one's home in; or to live in; or to stay (in a place)
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(3)
(dwelling as in: a modest dwelling) a house or shelter in which someone lives