Vocabulary
Hover
English and Urdu gloss, synonyms and antonyms, and example usage from our editorial sentence cache where available.
English meaning
remain in one place in the air.
Urdu meaning
منڈلانا، ہوا میں معلق ہونا
Example sentences (from Dawn)
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- FROM the bustling mills of Faisalabad to the humming ports of Karachi, clouds of uncertainty hover over Pakistan`s export industry as proposed tariff hikes under the new US administration threaten to disrupt global trade.
- The question of legitimacy continues to hover over the current dispensation.
- While parties like the PPP and PML-N claim to have exceeded this requirement, and the PTI, despite losing its electoral symbol, fielded 20 women out of 234 candidates, one wonders why the norm is to hover around the minimum threshold.
Synonyms
be suspended, be poised, hang, float, levitate, drift, fly, flutter
Antonyms
dive, lunge, plunge
Curator example
“Army helicopters hovered overhead”
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About this vocabulary section.
These entries support close reading of Dawn editorials and opinion pieces: short definitions,
Urdu equivalents where we have them, word relations, and—when generated—real lines from the editorial archive
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