inhabit
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- Rhymes: -æbɪt
[edit] Etymology
From Old French enhabiter, from Latin inhabitare (in + habitare)
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to inhabit (third-person singular simple present inhabits, present participle inhabiting, simple past and past participle inhabited)
- (transitive) To live or reside in some place
- the Inuit inhabit the Arctic
- (transitive) To be present in or fill some place
- Strange thoughts inhabit my mind
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to live or reside in some place
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