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To remain floating, suspended, or fluttering in the air: gulls hovering over the waves.
(verb-intransitive)
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To remain or linger in or near a place: hovering around the speaker's podium.
(verb-intransitive)
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To remain in an uncertain state; waver: hovered between anger and remorse.
(verb-intransitive)
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The act or state of hovering: a helicopter in hover.
(noun)
American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.