Usually means: Remained suspended in air, stationary.
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  1. hovered: Merriam-Webster
  2. hovered: Collins English Dictionary
  3. hovered: Vocabulary.com
  4. Hovered, hovered: Wordnik
  5. hovered: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. hovered: Wiktionary
  7. Hovered, hovered: Dictionary.com
  8. hovered: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Hovered: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. Hovered: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. hovered: FreeDictionary.org
  12. hovered: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. hovered: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Hover)

verb:  (transitive)
verb:  To keep (something, such as an aircraft) in a stationary state in the air.
verb:  Of a bird: to shelter (chicks) under its body and wings; (by extension) of a thing: to cover or surround (something).
verb:  (obsolete) Of a bird or insect: to flap (its wings) so it can remain stationary in the air.
verb:  (intransitive)
verb:  To remain stationary or float in the air.
verb:  (figuratively)
verb:  Sometimes followed by over: to hang around or linger in a place, especially in an uncertain manner.
verb:  To be indecisive or uncertain; to vacillate, to waver.
verb:  (computing) Chiefly followed by over: to use a mouse or other device to place a cursor over something on a screen such as a hyperlink or icon without clicking, so as to produce a result (such as the appearance of a tooltip).
verb:  (nautical) To travel in a hovercraft as it moves above a water surface.
noun:  An act, or the state, of remaining stationary in the air or some other place.
noun:  A flock of birds fluttering in the air in one place.
noun:  (figuratively) An act, or the state, of being suspended; a suspension.
noun:  (chiefly Southern England) A cover; a protection; a shelter; specifically, an overhanging bank or stone under which fish can shelter; also, a shelter for hens brooding their eggs.
noun:  A surname.
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