dwell
/dwɛl/verb
To keep thinking or talking about something, especially something unpleasant, for longer than is useful.
Example sentences
- “Try not to dwell on mistakes you can't change.”
- “The speech dwelled too long on the company's old failures.”
- “There's no point dwelling on what might have happened.”
Almost always followed by 'on' or 'upon'. In formal or literary English, to dwell somewhere means to live there; the past tense is 'dwelled' or 'dwelt'.