Billow

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A large wave or swell of water.
  • n. A great swell, surge, or undulating mass, as of smoke or sound.
  • verb-intransitive. To surge or roll in billows.
  • verb-intransitive. To swell out or bulge: sheets billowing in the breeze.
  • v. To cause to billow: wind that billowed the sails.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A large wave, swell, surge, or undulating mass of something, such as water, smoke, fabric or sound
  • v. To surge or roll in billows
  • v. To swell out or bulge
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A great wave or surge of the sea or other water, caused usually by violent wind.
  • n. A great wave or flood of anything.
  • verb-intransitive. To surge; to rise and roll in waves or surges; to undulate.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A great wave or surge of the sea, occasioned usually by a violent wind: much used in figurative applications, and often, especially in the plural, as merely equivalent to wave: as, the billows of sorrow rolled over him.
  • n. Synonyms See wave.
  • To swell; rise and roll in large waves or surges.
  • To raise in waves or billows.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a large sea wave
  • v. become inflated
  • v. move with great difficulty
  • v. rise and move, as in waves or billows
  • v. rise up as if in waves
  • Verb Form
    billowed    billowes    billowing    billows   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    moving ridge    wave    locomote    travel    move    go    inflate    blow up   
    Cross Reference
    Form
    billowed    billowing   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    surge    undulate    wave    undulation    swell   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Amarillo    Camarillo    Hermosillo    Murillo    armadillo    caudillo    cillo    granillo    pillow    trillo   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    swirl    surf    expanse    tide    torrent    breaker    ripple    waterfall    surge    haze