All 9 Uses
dwell
in
The Namesake
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- ...one day he was to dwell in a snowy place himself,
Chpt 1 *dwell = live in
- Ashima is outraged by the remark, dwelling on it all day.
Chpt 5 *dwelling = to think or let attention stay on (or return to) something for a prolonged period
- Let's not dwell on that.†
Chpt 8
- But it's not the time to dwell on it.†
Chpt 9
- But there had been no time to dwell on this worry.†
Chpt 11
- Though his ashes have been scattered into the Ganges, it is here, in this house and in this town, that he will continue to dwell in her mind.†
Chpt 12
- He wonders how his parents had done it, leaving their respective families behind, seeing them so seldom, dwelling unconnected, in a perpetual state of expectation, of longing.†
Chpt 12 *
- Another, a widow, on the verge of a different sort of departure, in order to dwell, as his father does, in a separate world.†
Chpt 12
- This is no time for books," she will scold, hastily noting the volume open against the covers, unaware, as her son has been all these years, that her husband dwells discreetly, silently, patiently, within its pages.†
Chpt 12
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
- (4) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)