DWELLS Synonyms: 74 Similar and Opposite Words

dwells

verb

present tense third-person singular of dwell

as in remains

to continue to be in a place for a significant amount of time dwelling with a farm family as an exchange student in France

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as in resides

to have a home the widow dwells in the valley by herself

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Recent Examples of dwells Verity dwells almost entirely in the gulf between the front-facing celeb being interviewed by Alex Cooper and the vicious private thoughts of her confession. — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 5 Oct. 2026 The film’s title refers to a folk legend about a mythic creature that dwells in Bhutan’s icy mountains, and suggests all that is being lost with melting glaciers. — Matthew Carey, Deadline, 7 Sep. 2026 Quiñones, an artist known as @skullsqwat and stylist to It-girl supreme and rock-star newlywed Gabbriette (known to her as Gabi), dwells in many realms. — Los Angeles Times, 2 Sep. 2026 Every other entry either dwells in its characters’ filth throughout or reveals a new level of depravity as the climactic joke. — Ben Travers, IndieWire, 17 Aug. 2026 Discussion about The Matrix’s influence invariably dwells on its ample visual contributions to action filmmaking. — Declan Gallagher, Entertainment Weekly, 14 Aug. 2026 Laqueur’s book dwells on the way that canines often function in art—as seers of things that people miss. — Boris Kachka, The Atlantic, 5 June 2026 Kenneth Tam’s video work dwells with a community of taxi-drivers struggling with the erosion of their trade in the wake of rideshare apps. — Zoë Hopkins, New Yorker, 29 May 2026 It’s caused by a parasite, Cytauxzoon felis, that dwells in a species of tick known as the Lone Star tick − named for a single white dot on the backs of adult females. — Drew Pittock, USA Today, 21 May 2026

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Verb

But while money remains unclaimed, the government benefits from having control of it.

— Mark Lewyn, Hartford Courant, 2 Oct. 2026
Bleecker remains nimble, with roughly 30 employees in New York and Los Angeles, and has a reputation for doing its best to rein in costs.

— Brent Lang, IndieWire, 2 Oct. 2026

Definition of remains

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Women’s health needs funding, not just attention For the editors, the value of the issue also resides in showing how much there is to learn about women’s health.

— Annalisa Merelli, STAT, 1 Oct. 2026
While the Starship spacecraft is a 171-foot-tall colossus designed to transport people to deep space, Dragon is a 13-foot-wide capsule fit to carry about four astronauts at a time to low-Earth orbit, where the International Space Station resides.

— Jackie Wattles, CNN Money, 30 Sep. 2026

Definition of resides

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The Abercrombie Kids’ Baby & Toddler Collection adds newborn through 5T sizing after shoppers asked for smaller sizes, extending the brand into another stage of its customers’ lives.

— Ashley Lynch, Kansas City Star, 2 Oct. 2026
This is where your team has energy, drive and competitive edge, and where high performance lives.

— Roy Ward, Forbes.com, 1 Oct. 2026

Definition of lives

Verb

The department’s administrative case runs on its own timeline under Chapter 302 of the Missouri Revised Statutes while the criminal prosecution moves through court, and neither one waits for the other.

— Karen Koehler, Kansas City Star, 8 Oct. 2026
But mental health challenges do not pause while the organization waits.

— Stephen Sokoler, Forbes.com, 6 Oct. 2026