Definitions for billow

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billow bil·low

Spelling: [bil-oh]

IPA: /ˈbɪl oʊ/

Billow is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 55 anagrams from letters in billow (billow).

Definitions for billow

noun

1. a great wave or surge of the sea.
2. any surging mass:

verb (used with object)

1. to make rise, surge, swell, or the like:

verb (used without object)

1. to rise or roll in or like billows; surge.
2. to swell out, puff up, etc., as by the action of wind:

Origin of billow

1545-55; Old Norse bylgja wave, cognate with Middle Low German bulge; akin to Old English gebylgan to anger, provoke

Examples for billow

The interior of the house was a billow of red, white, and blue.

Then there was a bound, as if the boat had been shot from a catapult, and the billow fell.

The billow and the wind And the still waters will sweep us away Mercilessly!

Now she was hid from sight in the trough of the sea, now she rose to the summit of a billow.

Already the distant roar of the billow was heard, proving that it had begun to break.

There was a gentle flash of quick light that was smothered by a billow of smoke.

They are in circumstances in which the ripple passes into the wavelet, and the wavelet into the billow.

It flared briefly and let out with a billow of thick red smoke.

Here he was launched on the shingle by a billow, and washed high up on the beach.

Oh, the wreck is on the billow; hasten with the means of safety.