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 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 Curiously, the book also dwells little on Monroe’s own literary ambitions. — Los Angeles Times, 25 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 Samba Jean-Baptiste’s music dwells in the semi-sublime state of being bored and stoned. — Emma Madden, Pitchfork, 14 Apr. 2026 What was intriguing about this was the fact that the TDE occurred around 10,000 light-years away from the center of this galaxy, where its supermassive black hole dwells. — Robert Lea, Space.com, 18 Feb. 2026 The Road dares us to believe that something, or someone, dwells within us—an unquenchable flame that burns but does not consume. — Literary Hub, 17 Nov. 2025 Familiar character Tony Tony Chopper (voiced by Mikaela Hoover) dwells here. — Nick Romano, Entertainment Weekly, 28 Oct. 2025

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This is a long-term problem the agency is working on, but remains unresolved.

— AJ Willingham, AJC.com, 3 Aug. 2026
Sustained high performance by firms that treat customer value as primary remains the strongest empirical rebuttal.

— Steve Denning, Forbes.com, 3 Aug. 2026

Definition of remains

Verb

Candy died of a heart attack in March 1994, at 43; the service was held just around the corner from his Brentwood home, where Rosemary still resides and her late husband’s presence still fills the house.

— Jenelle Riley, Los Angeles Times, 4 Aug. 2026
Perhaps most notable this year is the Golden Plunge indoor swimming pool, which was originally constructed around 1926 and still resides under the venue’s floor, empty of water of course.

— Tiney Ricciardi, Denver Post, 31 July 2026

Definition of resides

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Toberman, a former real estate developer in the United States and France, stays fit by playing pickleball nearly every day, usually for two hours at a time, along with water and snow skiing.

— Nancy Badertscher, AJC.com, 6 Aug. 2026
That’s because even if the tiniest sliver of the sun remains visible, the landscape stays surprisingly bright, the sky never falls into twilight, and the sun’s spectacular corona remains hidden.

— Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 5 Aug. 2026

Definition of stays

Verb

That lawsuit names coho salmon, spotted owls, as well as a threatened seabird, the marbled murrelet, which lives largely out at sea but returns to old-growth coastal trees to nest, as species threatened by the change.

— Lizzie Kane, Sacbee.com, 31 July 2026
On the Eastern Plains near Manzanola, Alice Craig McDonald, 91, lives near the homestead her grandparents claimed after leaving Oklahoma by wagon in 1916 -- descendants of people born into slavery who came west looking for land of their own.

— Anna Alejo, CBS News, 31 July 2026

Definition of lives

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Most meetings run on the host’s agenda while the client waits to be heard.

— Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 31 July 2026
But long waits to enter the stadium — delays that stemmed from operational failures rather than genuine demand — frustrated the same fans who had willingly queued for tickets weeks earlier.

— Tatiana Sataua, Fortune, 31 July 2026