billow
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
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- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
a large sea wave
Types & categories
- wave hypernym
Related & opposite
Sense 2 verb
rise up as if in waves
smoke billowed up into the sky
Types & categories
Sense 3 verb
move with great difficulty
The soldiers billowed across the muddy riverbed
Types & categories
- move hypernym
Sense 4 verb
rise and move, as in waves or billows
The army surged forward
Types & categories
- inflate hypernym
Related & opposite
Sense 5 verb
become inflated
The sails ballooned
Types & categories
Related & opposite
- inflation derivation
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| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | scend |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | tide |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | surge |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | billowy |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | wave |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | soar |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | cloud |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | move |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | billow |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | heave |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | surge |
| 4 | hypernym | Types & categories | inflate |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | inflation |
| 5 | hypernym | Types & categories | expand |
| 5 | hyponym | Types & categories | reflate |