Synonyms:
populate, dwell, live, inhabit
Meaning: 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:
inhabit
Meaning: be present in; "sweet memories inhabit this house"
Usage examples
In some species of the genus, probably in all, the sexes pair and inhabit the same burrow.
But this one displays a peculiarity confined to all fishes that inhabit subterranean waters.
The peasantry, who inhabit the wilderness beyond, say that I am mad. That is because I will have nothing to do with them.
One day she accompanied me upon some household errand into the cellar of the old building which our poverty compelled us to inhabit.
So that with these nudibranch molluscs, colour apparently does not stand in any close relation to the nature of the places which they inhabit.
Merlin was the son of no mortal father, but of an Incubus, one of a class of beings not absolutely wicked, but far from good, who inhabit the regions of the air.
But were our senses altered, and made much quicker and acuter, the appearance and outward scheme of things would have quite another face to us; and, I am apt to think, would be inconsistent with our being, or at least wellbeing, in the part of the universe which we inhabit.