Dwells Synonyms and Antonyms

To focus the attention on something moodily and at length
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. stews
  2. worries
  3. mopes
  4. frets
  5. carks
  6. broods
Inhabit or live in; be an inhabitant of
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. lives
  2. resides
  3. bunks
  4. settles
  5. occupies
  6. crashes
  7. abides
  8. flops
  9. broods
  10. quarters
  11. rents
  12. continues
  13. houses
  14. lingers
  15. remains
  16. tarries
  17. inhabits
  18. stops
  19. expatiates
  20. stays
  21. domiciles
  22. sojourns
  23. lodges
  24. populates
Antonyms:
  1. wanders
  2. roams
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Originate (in)
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. lies
  2. rests
  3. resides
  4. reposes
  5. consists
  6. exists
Exist or be situated within
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. inhabits

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Dwells Sentence Examples

  • A considerable part of the population still dwells in caves.

  • Arndt here dwells upon the mystical union between the believer and Christ, and endeavours, by drawing attention to Christ's life in His people, to correct the purely forensic side of the Reformation theology, which paid almost exclusive attention to Christ's death for His people.

  • Savary dwells on the difficulty both of procuring lenses sufficiently equal in focus and of accurately adjusting and centring them.

  • And in scores of other passages Philo dwells on " the ineffable mysteries " of Jewish faith and allegory.

  • Lightfoot, indeed, dwells on the all-round "comprehensiveness" with which Clement, as the mouthpiece of the early Roman Church, utters in succession phrases or ideas borrowed impartially from Peter and Paul and James and the Epistle to Hebrews.

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