dwell
verb
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
- Direction
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Senses
Sense 1 verb
think moodily or anxiously about something
Types & categories
- worry hypernym
Related & opposite
- dwell on also see
Sense 2 verb
originate (in)
The problems dwell in the social injustices in this country
Types & categories
- exist hypernym
Related & opposite
- lie derivation
Sense 3 verb
inhabit or live in; be an inhabitant of
People lived in Africa millions of years ago
Types & categories
Related & opposite
- live in also see
- sleep out also see
- inhabitancy derivation
- dwelling derivation
- population derivation
- denizen derivation
- liver derivation
- livable derivation
Sense 4 verb
exist or be situated within
Strange notions inhabited her mind
Types & categories
- exist hypernym
Sense 5 verb
come back to
Don't dwell on the past
Types & categories
- repeat hypernym
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | also see | Related & opposite | dwell on |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | worry |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | lie |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | exist |
| 3 | also see | Related & opposite | live in |
| 3 | also see | Related & opposite | sleep out |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | inhabitancy |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | dwelling |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | population |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | denizen |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | liver |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | livable |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | be |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | tenant |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | neighbor |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | lodge in |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | domicile |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | people |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | overpopulate |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | cohabit |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | lodge |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | camp |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | nest |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | room |
| 4 | hypernym | Types & categories | exist |
| 5 | hypernym | Types & categories | repeat |