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levitate

[ US /ˈɫɛvɪˌteɪt/ ]
[ UK /lˈɛvɪtˌe‍ɪt/ ]
VERB
  1. cause to rise in the air and float, as if in defiance of gravity
    The magician levitated the woman
  2. be suspended in the air, as if in defiance of gravity
    The guru claimed that he could levitate

How To Use levitate In A Sentence

  • Some conjurers are even said to levitate or to have performed the famous Indian rope trick.
  • The only moving component within the pump is the impeller, which is levitated and rotated within the pump chamber in a contact-free manner. Medgadget
  • You're not going to levitate or come out singing the way I do.
  • They marched innocently off to the Pentagon to try to levitate it and put flowers in rifle barrels.
  • He sent her a little wave and I swear she levitated off the ground.
  • Elsewhere, a life-sized figure of the theosophist Madame Blavatsky appears to levitate between two chairs, in a work by Goshka Macuga, held aloft by the power of thought alone. Saatchi's Newspeak: the good, bad and indifferent
  • The magician levitated the woman
  • Coral heads, reef sharks and parrot fish shimmer beneath a plane of water so translucent, that a dinghy moored there not so much floats as levitates.
  • Hominibus facetis et ludis puerilibus ultra modum deditus adeo ut si cui in eo tam gravitatem, quam levitatem considerare liberet, duas personas distinctas in eo esse diceret. Anatomy of Melancholy
  • Complementing the overt philosophic cast of the last participle, for not yet "actualized" rather than merely not yet recognized, Wordsworth's verse, in and beyond the Intimations Ode, is often levitated on words as well as worlds that feel churning in a line without being fully conjured into print, fleeting evocations neither quite seized upon by the lyricist as yet nor brought to be in reading. Phonemanography: Romantic to Victorian
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