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levitate

verb as in rise into the air

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These two qualities open up a whole host of possibilities, including lossless power lines and electronic circuits, ultra-sensitive sensors, and incredibly powerful magnets that could be used to levitate trains or make super-efficient turbines.

They could revolutionize the electric grid and enable levitating trains, among many other potential applications.

In a container, liquid can be levitated over a layer of gas by shaking the container up and down.

Objects can float along the bottom of this levitated liquid.

Going bottom-up is no problem for a boat on the underside of a levitating liquid.

“I can levitate,” he says, and he tries to get up from the couch, but he cannot.

His body appears to levitate—his left foot is off the ground.

One family “watched as the heavy wooden bedroom dresser eerily began to levitate a few inches off the floor.”

Matilda wins through her intelligence and a blossoming superpower to levitate objects with her mind.

In the 1990s, this person was huge in pop culture, invested with mythical and mystical powers, and able to make things levitate.

There were supposed to be men who could levitate—fly through the air at will.

They circled the Pentagon with hundreds of protestors and said a magic spell that was supposed to levitate it.

My body seemed to be of ethereal substance, ready to levitate.

My rat cannot levitate cheese-crumbs weighing more than 1.7 grams.

It was not necessary, he found, to walk into a large bank and simply seemingly levitate the money out the front door.

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On this page you'll find 19 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to levitate, such as: drift, float, fly, hang, hover, and rise.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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