inhabit
Other forms: inhabited; inhabiting; inhabits
When you inhabit a place, you live there. When actors inhabit their roles, they seem to become the characters, no longer actors reciting their lines. It is like they live the life of the character.
The verb inhabit comes from the Old French enhabiter, meaning “dwell in.” You can inhabit an actual place, like a home, a cave, or a neighborhood. You can also inhabit an imaginary world, like those who choose to inhabit cyberspace with a made-up persona, telling about experiences that are nothing like the person's real life. Actors who truly inhabit their roles sometimes struggle to return to reality after a movie or television show wraps.
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inhabit or live in; be an inhabitant of“The people inhabited the islands that are now deserted”types:tenantoccupy as a tenantpeoplefurnish with peopleoverpopulatecause to have too great a populationcohabit, live together, shack upshare living quarters; usually said of people who are not married and live together as a couplelodgebe a lodger; stay temporarilynestinhabit a nest, usually after buildingmove inoccupy a placerusticatelive in the country and lead a rustic lifestay atreside temporarilysquatoccupy (a dwelling) illegallycrashoccupy, usually uninvitedmiscegenatemarry or cohabit with a person of another racetype of:beoccupy a certain position or area; be somewhere
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be present in
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exist or be situated within
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Get to know these 85 words from Arthur Miller’s 1953 "The Crucible" -- a play that dramatized the late 17th century Salem witch trials and served as an allegory of McCarthyism.
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