levitate
verb
lev·i·tate
ˈle-və-ˌtāt 
levitated; levitating
: to rise or float in or as if in the air especially in seeming defiance of gravitation
: to cause to levitate
Examples of levitate in a Sentence
The woman levitated above the stage.
The magician claimed he could levitate a car.
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Even before Ellen starts levitating off the bed, going full Exorcist while spewing messages from the netherworld, Sievers realizes her ailment is beyond his skill set.
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David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Dec. 2024
And then there is Junior’s most sci-fi feature of all: The entire magnet unit will levitate in the center of the reactor, thanks to a permanent magnet that will be installed above the vacuum chamber.
—IEEE Spectrum, 12 Nov. 2024
Simon Townsley—Panos Pictures Brazil’s Gabriel Medina appears to levitate during the men’s surfing competition in the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, held in Teahupo’o, on the French Polynesian island of Tahiti, on July 29.
—Time Photo Department, TIME, 26 Nov. 2024
For thousands of years mothers have been devastatingly waking their tiny babies, trying to levitate them out of their car seats and into their strollers until some genius finally invented the Doona: a car seat slash stroller in one.
—Hayley Bloomingdale, Vogue, 20 Oct. 2024
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David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Dec. 2024
And then there is Junior’s most sci-fi feature of all: The entire magnet unit will levitate in the center of the reactor, thanks to a permanent magnet that will be installed above the vacuum chamber.
—IEEE Spectrum, 12 Nov. 2024
Simon Townsley—Panos Pictures Brazil’s Gabriel Medina appears to levitate during the men’s surfing competition in the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, held in Teahupo’o, on the French Polynesian island of Tahiti, on July 29.
—Time Photo Department, TIME, 26 Nov. 2024
For thousands of years mothers have been devastatingly waking their tiny babies, trying to levitate them out of their car seats and into their strollers until some genius finally invented the Doona: a car seat slash stroller in one.
—Hayley Bloomingdale, Vogue, 20 Oct. 2024
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“Levitate.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/levitate. Accessed 2 Jan. 2025.
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levitate
verb
lev·i·tate
ˈlev-ə-ˌtāt
: to rise or cause to rise in the air in seeming defiance of gravity
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