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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.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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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. Zelda Fitzgerald

The sails ballooned Source: Internet

The army surged forward Source: Internet

smoke billowed up into the sky Source: Internet

The soldiers billowed across the muddy riverbed Source: Internet

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. Source: Internet

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