Especially after the rains do they screen what passes below, but at all times, even when scorched or leafless, they glorify the city to the English people who inhabit the rise, so that new-comers cannot believe it to be as meagre as it is described, and have to be driven down to acquire disillusionment.
E. M. Forster, A Passage to India
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Merriam-Webster
— to occupy as a place of settled residence or habitat : live in
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Macmillan
— to live in a particular place
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Collins
— If a place or region is inhabited by a group of people or a species of animal, those people or animals live there.
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inhabited
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1 use of ‘inhabit’ in A Passage to India, by E. M. Forster