dwell
verb [intransitive] (formal or literary)Verb Forms
Phrasal Verbs| present simple I / you / we / they dwell | |
| he / she / it dwells | |
| past simple dwelt | |
| past participle dwelt | |
| past simple dwelled | |
| past participle dwelled | |
| -ing form dwelling |
- + adv./prep.
to live somewhere 居住；栖身 He dwelt in a ruined cottage on the hillside. 他住在山坡上一座破败的农舍里。 For ten years she dwelled among the nomads of North America. 她在北美游牧民中生活了十年。 The gorillas dwell in the high rainforests of Rwanda. 大猩猩生活在卢旺达的热带雨林中。
Word OriginOld English dwellan ‘lead astray, hinder, delay’ (in Middle English ‘tarry, remain in a place’), of Germanic origin; related to Middle Dutch dwellen ‘stun, perplex’ and Old Norse dvelja ‘delay, tarry, stay’.