- 1[intransitive] (of a sail, skirt, etc.) to fill with air and swell out The curtains billowed in the breeze.
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- 2[intransitive] if smoke, cloud, etc. billows, it rises and moves in a large mass A huge cloud of smoke billowed out of the chimney.
billow
verbNAmE//ˈbɪloʊ//
Verb Forms present simple I / you / we / they billow he / she / it billows
past simple billowed
-ing form billowing
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