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   dwell

   /dwɛl/

   verb

   • 1. live in or at a specified place: formal, literary "groups of people still dwell in these caves"

   noun

   • 1. a slight regular pause in the motion of a machine. technical

   Word Origin Old Englishdwellan ‘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’.

   Scrabble Points: 9

   • D

     2

   • W

     4

   • E

     1

   • L

     1

   • L

     1

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