billow

billow is a 6-letter English word with 8 senses as noun, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A great wave or surge of the sea or other water, caused usually by violent wind. Face value is 11 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

6 letters · Scrabble 11 · Words With Friends 14 · 8 senses

Definitions

1. noun. A great wave or surge of the sea or other water, caused usually by violent wind.
2. noun. A great wave or flood of anything.
3. intransitive verb. To surge; to rise and roll in waves or surges; to undulate.
4. noun. a large sea wave

   Synonyms: surge

5. verb. become inflated

   "The sails ballooned"

   Synonyms: balloon, inflate

6. verb. rise and move, as in waves or billows

   "The army surged forward"

   Synonyms: heave, surge

7. verb. rise up as if in waves

   "smoke billowed up into the sky"

   Synonyms: wallow

8. verb. move with great difficulty

   "The soldiers billowed across the muddy riverbed"

Synonyms

surge, balloon, inflate, heave, wallow

Common word forms

billows, billowed, billowing

Words from these letters

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