billow
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7.4
- noun
- /ˈbɪloʊ/
- Literature
:
ola (poético)
- The wind burned his cheeks as it filled the road with billows of snow.
- billows of dust
- steam billows
- billows of flame
Examples
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As the storm approached, the ocean began to churn with great billows of water.
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A boxy police car sweeps into the lane, dragging a billow of dust behind it.
Fiction book (1998) -
"His eyes followed a plastic bag billow down the pier, rolling end over end until it was lost from view.
Fiction book (1995) -
"The face vanished for a moment in a billow of smoke, then returned.
Fiction book (1990) -
A billow of smoke that filled the room with the odor of burning hair."
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People saw not her steering, but only the big bright billow of white sails.
Fiction book (1998) -
High red flames rise in a billow of smoke that blossoms like a flower.
Fiction book (2001) -
A cape is slung over his shoulders and billows out gently behind him.
Academic text (2005) -
Adalyne's tribulations rose like sea billows and crashed into her heart.
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Meera stirred the watery, sedimented sambar and watched a muddy cloud billow to the top.
Fiction book (2002)
Synonyms
143
4.2
A sudden strong movement forward or upward, like a wave
46
5.7
A long smooth wave on the open sea that moves steadily
12
4.4
A long heavy sea wave that rolls toward the shore
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3.0
A long heavy wave in the sea that moves toward the shore
1
6.9
A long deep wave in the sea from storms far away or earthquakes
Large rolling waves that make the sea rise and fall
How Big
Surface Forms
Etymology
Billow comes from an old German word bulg that meant 'swell', the same idea you see in the word bulge. So a billow is a large rolling wave or swell of water.