billow
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1. billow - Noun
2. billow - Verb
3. Billow - Proper noun
Meaning
A great wave or surge of the sea or other water, caused usually by violent wind.
A great wave or flood of anything.
To surge; to rise and roll in waves or surges; to undulate.
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Life has puffed and blown itself into a summer day, and clouds and spring billow over the heavens as if calendars were a listing of mathematical errors.
The sails ballooned
The army surged forward
smoke billowed up into the sky
The soldiers billowed across the muddy riverbed
As the body neared the ground (forest), the bright body seemed to smudge, and then turned into a giant billow of black smoke, and a loud knocking (not thunder) was heard, as if large stones were falling, or artillery was fired.