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hovered

[huhv-er, hov-]

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verb (used without object)

to hang fluttering or suspended in the air: The helicopter hovered over the building.

to keep lingering about; wait near at hand.

to remain in an uncertain or irresolute state; waver: to hover between life and death.

noun

the act or state of hovering.

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Origin:
1350–1400; Middle English hoveren, frequentative of hoven to hover < ?

Related forms

hov·er·er, noun

hov·er·ing·ly, adverb

Synonyms
1. See fly¹. 3. falter, pause, fluctuate.

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Example Sentences

When it was over, the doctors hovered anxiously over him.

It has hovered around this mark for the past few months, which has led some pundits to describe his presidency as on the brink.

The spiral fairly hovered above the landscape, its boundaries of piled rock etched in sharp relief.

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When it was over, the doctors hovered anxiously over him.

It has hovered around this mark for the past few months, which has led some pundits to describe his presidency as on the brink.

The spiral fairly hovered above the landscape, its boundaries of piled rock etched in sharp relief.

The area covered by sea ice hovered near its historic low this summer.

The helicopter hovered above the surface for a moment, then crashed into the water and began to sink.

In fact, thick clouds hovered over much of the landing site at the designated touchdown time.

Television crews and news reporters hovered outside.

For much of the previous decade, the petroleum deficit hovered at a level around a third of the total trade deficit.

We rushed to the vet, where she hovered over an operating table trying to coax the little guy back to consciousness.

You're a teenager hovered over the liner notes of a cherished new album.

The tantalizing snack hovered above until a hungry fish was tempted to go for it.

The prototype has only hovered a few feet off the ground in tests.

Army helicopters hovered overhead, and the wounded were transported to an army hospital.

Low clouds hovered above the mountains in the waning light.

Ford's model hovered and was to be guided by cables buried in the roadway.

Still, the storm hovered in the gulf with no certain path.

Onscreen, a bloodred cube hovered below a matrix of white lamps.

Hummingbirds hovered at our feeder to sip nectar before darting away.

It stopped and hovered between me and a group of surfers floating idly on their boards.

The police erected razor wire barricades while a police helicopter hovered.

Instead, she hovered at its edgeHome was an abandoned.

Crane expressed frustration that a cloud still hovered over the origins of the theory he had dedicated his career.

Far above our heads hovered a tiny shard of brightness.

Subjects who chose white as the race for a janitor first hovered toward the black choice.

When your cursor hovered on an icon you clicked a soon-to-be-iconic one-button mouse, and a program would start, as if by magic.

Travolta said as three senior church officials hovered nearby.

The cold winter that hovered over much of the country for so many months sent women of all ages into pants for warmth.

The police responded by shooting into the air and using tear gas, while a police helicopter hovered overhead.

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Word Origin & History

hover

c.1400, hoveren, frequentative of hoven "hover, tarry, linger" (mid-13c.), of unknown origin, chiefly nautical at first, of ships standing off a coast. Hovercraft first attested 1959; a proprietary name after 1961.

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"Pale and pinched-up faces hovered about the windows where was tempting food; hungry eyes wandered over the profusion guarded by one thin sheet of brittle glass—an iron wall to them; half-naked shivering figures stopped to gaze at Chinese shawls and golden stuffs of India."

-Charles Dickens

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