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ɪnˈhæb ɪtin·hab·it

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English Synonyms and Antonyms4.0 / 3 votes

  1. inhabit

    To abide is to remain continuously without limit of time unless expressed by the context: "to-day I must abide at thy house," Luke xix, 5; "a settled place for thee to abide in forever," 1 Kings viii, 13; "Abide with me! fast falls the eventide," Lyte Hymn. Lodge, sojourn, stay, tarry, and wait always imply a limited time; lodge, to pass the night; sojourn, to remain temporarily; live, dwell, reside, to have a permanent home. Stop, in the sense of stay or sojourn, is colloquial, and not in approved use. Compare ENDURE; REST.

    Synonyms:
    abide, anticipate, await, bear, bide, confront, continue, dwell, endure, expect, live, lodge, remain, reside, rest, sojourn, stay, stop, tarry, tolerate, wait, watch

    Antonyms:
    abandon, avoid, depart, forfeit, forfend, journey, migrate, move, proceed, reject, resist, shun

    Preposition:
    Abide in a place, for a time, with a person, by a statement.

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms5.0 / 1 vote

  1. inhabit

    Synonyms:
    tenant, colonize, settle, dwell in, reside in, live in, occupy

    Antonyms:
    abandon, forsake, migrate

Princeton's WordNet4.0 / 1 vote

  1. populate, dwell, live, inhabitverb

    inhabit or live in; be an inhabitant of

    "People lived in Africa millions of years ago"; "The people inhabited the islands that are now deserted"; "this kind of fish dwells near the bottom of the ocean"; "deer are populating the woods"

    Synonyms:
    go, exist, harp, live, hold out, populate, lie in, brood, be, experience, hold up, subsist, dwell, live on, lie, consist, endure, survive, know, last

  2. inhabitverb

    be present in

    "sweet memories inhabit this house"

    Synonyms:
    dwell, live, populate

  3. dwell, inhabitverb

    exist or be situated within

    "Strange notions inhabited her mind"

    Synonyms:
    lie in, dwell, populate, harp, brood, live, lie, consist

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Editors Contribution0.0 / 0 votes

  1. indwellverb

    take up residence in

    Submitted by Providence on June 30, 2023  

Dictionary of English Synonymes0.0 / 0 votes

  1. inhabitverb

    Synonyms:
    occupy, dwell in, live in, reside in

  2. inhabitverb

    Synonyms:
    dwell, reside, sojourn, live, abide

PPDB, the paraphrase database0.0 / 0 votes

  1. List of paraphrases for "inhabit":

    live, reside

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How to use inhabit in a sentence?

  1. Ryan Gosling:

    To be a part of that anyway was surreal, but then to get to set and realize the sets were fully functioning worlds that you could inhabit… The props worked… You were just completely immersed in this universe that you grew up watching and imagining so it was very impressive, overwhelming.

  2. Neil Gemmell:

    While the prospect of looking for evidence of the Loch Ness monster is the hook to this project, there is an extraordinary amount of new knowledge that we will gain from the work about organisms that inhabit Loch Ness – the UK's largest freshwater body.

  3. Valerie Streit:

    Manny's support lifted me and so many others who were underrepresented in the newsroom -- helping me overcome impostor syndrome and insecurities about how to claim my authority and inhabit my voice.

  4. Mary Caroline Richards:

    Inhabit ourselves that we may indeed do what we want to do.

  5. Dawna Markova:

    I will not die an unlived life. I will not live in fear of falling or catching fire. I choose to inhabit my days, to allow my living to open me, to make me less afraid, more accessible; to loosen my heart until it becomes a wing, a torch, a promise. I choose to risk my significance, to live so that which came to me as seed goes to the next as blossom, and that which came to me as blossom, goes on as fruit.


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