billow[noun]Synonyms:- wave, breaker, crest, roller, surge, swell, tide
[verb]Synonyms:- surge, balloon, belly, puff up, rise up, roll, swell
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I. bil‧low1 /ˈbɪləʊ $ -loʊ/
verb [intransitive]1. (
also billow out) if something made of cloth billows, it moves in the wind:
Her long skirt billowed in the breeze.2. if a cloud or smoke billows, it rises in a round mass
billow out of/up etc There was smoke billowing out of the windows. [TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲
II. billow2 noun [countable usually plural][
Date: 1500-1600;
Origin: Probably from Old Norse bylgja]
1. a moving cloud or mass of something such as smoke or cloth
2. literary a wave, especially a very large one
[TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲