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say it: HUHV-ur
hover is a verb meaning "be undecided about something; waver between conflicting positions or courses of action". It carries 5 recorded senses.
be undecided about something; waver between conflicting positions or courses of action
“He oscillates between accepting the new position and retirement”
move to and fro
“The shy student lingered in the corner”
be suspended in the air, as if in defiance of gravity
“The guru claimed that he could levitate”
hang over, as of something threatening, dark, or menacing
“The terrible vision brooded over her all day long”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for hover come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.