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For the verb: "to dwell"

Simple Past: dwelt, dwelled
Past Participle: dwelt, dwelled

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
dwell/dwel/
verb (past and past part. dwelt or dwelled)
  • 1 formal live in or at a place.
  • 2 (dwell on/upon) think, speak, or write at length about.
noun technical a slight regular pause in the motion of a machine.
– derivatives
dweller noun.
– origin OE dwellan ‘lead astray, delay’ (in ME ‘remain in a place’), of Gmc origin.
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