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levitate
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levitate
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Verb levitate has 2 senses
- levitate(v = verb.motion) Array - cause to rise in the air and float, as if in defiance of gravity; "The magician levitated the woman" is one way to bring up, elevate, get up, lift, raise
- levitate(v = verb.motion) hover - be suspended in the air, as if in defiance of gravity; "The guru claimed that he could levitate" Derived form noun levitation1
Derived form noun levitation1
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CIDE DICTIONARY
levitate, v. i. [L. levitas, -atis, lightness. See Levity.].
To rise, or tend to rise, as if lighter than the surrounding medium; to become buoyant; -- opposed to gravitate . Sir. J. Herschel. [1913 Webster]
levitate, v. t.
To make buoyant; to cause to float in the air; as, to levitate a table. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
levitate, v.
1 intr. rise and float in the air (esp. with reference to spiritualism).
2 tr. cause to do this.
1 intr. rise and float in the air (esp. with reference to spiritualism).
2 tr. cause to do this.
Derivative
levitation n. levitator n.
Etymology
L levis light, after GRAVITATE
THESAURUS
levitate
arise, ascend, boost, buoy up, cast up, come up, curl upwards, elevate, erect, escalate, float, go up, grow up, heave, heft, heighten, heist, hike, hoick, hoist, hold up, jerk up, knock up, lift, lift up, lob, loft, loom, mount, perk up, raise, raise up, rear, rear up, rise, rise up, set up, sky, spiral, spire, stand up, stick up, surge, swarm up, sweep up, throw up, tower, up, upbuoy, upcast, upgo, upgrow, upheave, uphoist, uphold, uplift, upraise, uprear, uprise, upspin, upstream, upsurge, upswarm, upthrow, upwind
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