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billow

English

  1. 🔊 a large sea wave
  2. 🔊 rise and move, as in waves or billows
    “The army surged forward”
  3. 🔊 rise up as if in waves
    “smoke billowed up into the sky”
  4. 🔊 move with great difficulty
    “The soldiers billowed across the muddy riverbed”
  5. 🔊 become inflated
    “The sails ballooned”

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