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Translate billow from English to French

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billow:
- Wiktionary:
  billow → ondoyer
  billow → flot
  billow → nuage, nuée, nappe, gonfler
- Synonyms for "billow":
  surge; wave; moving ridge
  wallow; soar; soar up; soar upwards; surge; zoom
  travel; go; move; locomote
  surge; heave; inflate; blow up
  balloon; inflate; expand

English

Detailed Translations for billow from English to French

billow:

Translation Matrix for billow:

Noun	Related Translations	Other Translations
-	surge
Verb	Related Translations	Other Translations
-	balloon; heave; inflate; surge; wallow
Other	Related Translations	Other Translations
-	wave

Synonyms for "billow":

surge; wave; moving ridge
wallow; soar; soar up; soar upwards; surge; zoom
travel; go; move; locomote
surge; heave; inflate; blow up
balloon; inflate; expand

Related Definitions for "billow":

a large sea wave¹
become inflated¹
rise and move, as in waves or billows¹
rise up as if in waves¹
- smoke billowed up into the sky¹
move with great difficulty¹
- The soldiers billowed across the muddy riverbed¹

Wiktionary Translations for billow:

billow

verb

to surge in billows
- billow → ondoyer

noun

large wave
- billow → flot

Cross Translation:

From	To	Via
• billow	→ nuage; nuée; nappe	↔ Schwaden — meist Plural: durch die strömende Bewegung von Luft einer flüchtigen Wolke ähnelnden Ansammlung von Dämpfen und/oder Gasen, insbesondere von Dunst, Nebel und Rauch
• billow	→ gonfler	↔ aufbauschen — (transitiv) etwas prall machen; durch Luft bewirken, dass sich etwas spannt

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