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say it: dwel
dwell is a verb meaning "think moodily or anxiously about something". It carries 5 recorded senses.
be an inhabitant of or reside in
“People lived in Africa millions of years ago”
“The people inhabited the islands that are now deserted”
“this kind of fish dwells near the bottom of the ocean”
“deer are populating the woods”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for dwell come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.