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Adjective billowing has 2 senses
- billowing, rolling, tumbling - moving in surges and billows and rolls; "billowing smoke from burning houses"; "the rolling fog"; "the rolling sea"; "the tumbling water of the rapids"
Antonyms: nonmoving, unmoving (indirect, via moving)
- billowy, billowing, surging - characterized by great swelling waves or surges; "billowy storm clouds"; "the restless billowing sea"; "surging waves"
Antonym: calm (indirect, via stormy)
Verb billow has 4 senses
- billow, wallow - rise up as if in waves; "smoke billowed up nto the sky"
--1 is one way to soar, soar up, soar upwards, surge, zoom
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- billow - move with great difficulty; "The soldiers billowed across the muddy riverbed"
--2 is one way to travel, go, move, locomote
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- billow, surge, heave - rise and move, as in waves or billows; "The army surged forward"
--3 is one way to inflate, blow up
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- balloon, inflate, billow - become inflated; "The sails ballooned"
--4 is one way to expand
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