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billowed

verb , past tense of billow

Synonyms and Antonyms of billowed

to extend outward beyond a usual point

the curtains in the open windows billowed in the summer wind

Synonyms of billowed

bagged, ballooned, beetled, bellied, bulged, bunched, jutted, overhung, poked, pooched [chiefly dialect], pouched, pouted, projected, protruded, started, stood out, stuck out, swelled

Words Related to billowed

blew up, inflated

dilated, distended, expanded

mushroomed, snowballed

elongated, extended, lengthened, stretched

Near Antonyms of billowed

compressed, condensed, constricted, contracted, shrank (or shrunk)

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