Usually means: Swelling or fluttering in wind.
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  1. billowing: Merriam-Webster
  2. billowing: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. billowing: Collins English Dictionary
  4. billowing: Vocabulary.com
  5. Billowing, billowing: Wordnik
  6. billowing: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. billowing: Wiktionary
  8. Billowing, billowing: Dictionary.com
  9. billowing: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. Billowing: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. billowing: Rhymezone
  12. Billowing: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. billowing: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  14. billowing: FreeDictionary.org
  15. billowing: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. billowing: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. billowing: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (billowing)

▸ noun:  The act of something that billows; a billow.

Similar:
tumbling, surging, stormy, rolling, moving, bellying, blowing, undulation, efflation, bubbling, more...

Opposite:
flaccid, limp, slack

Types:
smoke, steam, fog, mist, cloud, plume, whirlwind, tornado, more...

Phrases:
billowing or rolling in waves, cloak billowing, more...

Adjectives:
smoke, white, black, great, long, red, blue, dark, loud, heavier, mitral

Colors:
    white,     sky blue,     light gray,     pale pink,     lavender, more...

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Similar:
tumbling, surging, stormy, rolling, moving, bellying, blowing, undulation, efflation, bubbling, more...

Opposite:
flaccid, limp, slack

Types:
smoke, steam, fog, mist, cloud, plume, whirlwind, tornado, more...

Phrases:
billowing or rolling in waves, cloak billowing, more...

Adjectives:
smoke, white, black, great, long, red, blue, dark, loud, heavier, mitral

Colors:
    white,     sky blue,     light gray,     pale pink,     lavender, more...



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