dwell vs retell

dwell and retell both are verbs.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
dwell	No	No	Yes	No
retell	No	No	Yes	No

As verbs, retell is a hypernym of dwell; that is, retell is a word with a broader meaning than dwell:

Other hypernyms of dwell include ingeminate, iterate, reiterate, repeat, restate.

dwell (verb)	retell (verb)
think moodily or anxiously about something	to say, state, or perform again
come back to	render verbally
be an inhabitant of or reside in	make into fiction
originate (in)
exist or be situated within