LEVITATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does levitate mean? 

• LEVITATE (verb)
  The verb LEVITATE has 2 senses:

1. cause to rise in the air and float, as if in defiance of gravity

2. be suspended in the air, as if in defiance of gravity

  Familiarity information: LEVITATE used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LEVITATE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they levitate    ... he / she / it levitates   
Past simple: levitated   
Past participle: levitated   
-ing form: levitating   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Cause to rise in the air and float, as if in defiance of gravity

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Context example:

The magician levitated the woman

Hypernyms (to "levitate" is one way to...):

bring up; elevate; get up; lift; raise (raise from a lower to a higher position)

Verb group:

hover; levitate (be suspended in the air, as if in defiance of gravity)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something

Derivation:

levitation (the phenomenon of a person or thing rising into the air by apparently supernatural means)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Be suspended in the air, as if in defiance of gravity

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

hover; levitate

Context example:

The guru claimed that he could levitate

"Levitate" entails doing...:

arise; come up; go up; lift; move up; rise; uprise (move upward)

Verb group:

levitate (cause to rise in the air and float, as if in defiance of gravity)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

levitation (the phenomenon of a person or thing rising into the air by apparently supernatural means)