billow

To billow is to move or to swell up like a wave. When the wind billows the sail on the boat, the sail is moving in the wind.

  • The waves billowed up and crashed against the shore.

  • The dress billowed out around her waist.

Definition of billow

verb

rise up as if in waves

Synonyms:

wallow

verb

rise and move, as in waves or billows

Synonyms:

heave, surge

noun

a large sea wave

Synonyms:

surge

verb

become inflated

Synonyms:

balloon, inflate

verb

move with great difficulty

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Example Sentences for billow

  • 1

    The landscape is often a billowing cloud.

  • 2

    My dress was billowing and had long pink sleeves.

  • 3

    They wear billowing tunics that obscure their armor and conceal their faces.

  • 4

    Buildings were shown with black smoke billowing out of their middles.

  • 5

    He is wreathed in the folds of a large cloak which billows in the wind.

  • 6

    Henry is then seen with eraser shavings billowing behind his head.

  • 7

    I am absolutely convinced no smoke was billowing out of that funnel.

  • 8

    The dancer's legs and feet are often entirely concealed by billowing Hanbok.

  • 9

    The pinnate leaves with opposite leaflets giving a billowing effect in the wind.

  • 10

    Stones and dust flew amid the red flames and billowing black smoke.