ALL meanings of billow
bil·low
B b - verb billow When something made of cloth billows, it swells out and moves slowly in the wind. 3
- verb billow When smoke or cloud billows, it moves slowly upwards or across the sky. 3
- countable noun billow A billow of smoke or dust is a large mass of it rising slowly into the air. 3
- noun billow a large sea wave 3
- noun billow a swelling or surging mass, as of smoke or sound 3
- noun billow a large atmospheric wave, usually in the lee of a hill 3
- noun billow the sea itself 3
- verb billow to rise up, swell out, or cause to rise up or swell out 3
- noun billow a large wave; great swell of water 3
- noun billow any large swelling mass or surge, as of smoke, sound, etc. 3
- intransitive verb billow to surge, swell, or rise like or in a billow 3
- verb transitive billow to make billow or surge 3
- intransitive verb billow swell, puff up 1
- noun billow cloudlike mass 1
- noun billow a great wave or surge of the sea. 1
- noun billow any surging mass: billows of smoke. 1
- verb without object billow to rise or roll in or like billows; surge. 1
- verb without object billow to swell out, puff up, etc., as by the action of wind: flags billowing in the breeze. 1
- verb with object billow to make rise, surge, swell, or the like: A sudden wind billowed the tent alarmingly. 1
- noun billow A large wave, swell, surge, or undulating mass of something, such as water, smoke, fabric or sound. 0
- verb billow To surge or roll in billows. 0
- verb billow To swell out or bulge. 0