Synonyms:
hover, vibrate, vacillate, oscillate
Meaning: be undecided about something; waver between conflicting positions or courses of action; "He oscillates between accepting the new position and retirement"
Synonyms:
hover, linger
Meaning: move to and fro; "The shy student lingered in the corner"
Synonyms:
hover
Meaning: hang in the air; fly or be suspended above
Synonyms:
levitate, hover
Meaning: be suspended in the air, as if in defiance of gravity; "The guru claimed that he could levitate"
Usage examples
About her seemed to hover something of the ethereal, elusive, and disquieting.
I know that the shadows dance strangely, and hover and come near at hand, in those late hours of the night; but what then occurs I do not know.
The difficulty of shooting them was, that the falcons and spurwing-plovers would hover round the pit, when the crocodiles invariably took to the water.
Rock and ravine, beetling crag, singing cascade, and the heights where the lightning plays and the mists hover are certainly good timber for poetry--after you have caught your poet--but Nature eludes all formula.