billow
🇺🇸
/ˈbɪləʊ/
🇬🇧
/ˈbɪləʊ/
intransitive verb
R
to swell out like a wave or cloud
The sails billowed as the wind picked up.
R
to rise and move in large masses like smoke or steam
Thick smoke billowed from the fire.
noun
R
a large, wave-like mass of smoke, steam, etc.
The fire produced great billows of smoke.
translation
to swell out like a wave or cloud; to rise and move in large masses like smoke or steam
a large, wave-like mass of smoke, steam, etc.
Word Forms
3rd Present
billows
Past
billowed
Perfect
billowed
Progressive
billowing
Plural
billows