Billow

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  • noun. A large wave or swell of water.
  • noun. A great swell, surge, or undulating mass, as of smoke or sound.
  • intransitive verb. To surge or roll in billows.
  • intransitive verb. To swell out or bulge.
  • intransitive verb. To cause to billow.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To swell; rise and roll in large waves or surges.
  • To raise in waves or billows.
  • noun. 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.
  • noun. Synonyms See wave.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A great wave or surge of the sea or other water, caused usually by violent wind.
  • noun. A great wave or flood of anything.
  • intransitive verb. To surge; to rise and roll in waves or surges; to undulate.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A large wave, swell, surge, or undulating mass of something, such as water, smoke, fabric or sound
  • verb. To surge or roll in billows
  • verb. To swell out or bulge
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a large sea wave
  • verb. become inflated
  • verb. move with great difficulty
  • verb. rise and move, as in waves or billows
  • verb. rise up as if in waves