| Main Entry: | billow |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | surging mass |
Synonyms: |
beachcomber, breaker, crest, roller, surge, swell, tide, wave |
| Main Entry: | billow |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | surge |
Synonyms: |
balloon, belly, bloat, bounce, bulge, ebb and flow, heave, pitch, puff up, ripple, rise and fall, rise up, rock, roll, swell, toss, undulate, wave |
| Main Entry: | bag |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | droop |
Synonyms: |
balloon, billow, bulge, flap, flop, hang, lop, sag, swell |
| Main Entry: | bloat |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | blow up like a balloon |
Synonyms: |
balloon, belly, bilge, billow, dilate, distend, enlarge, expand, inflate, puff up, swell |
Antonyms: |
deflate, shrink, shrivel, tighten |
| Main Entry: | blow up |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | inflate |
Synonyms: |
billow, bloat, distend, enlarge, expand, fill, inflate, puff up, pump up, swell |
Antonyms: |
deflate, let out, shrink, shrivel |
| Main Entry: | bulge |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | project outward |
Synonyms: |
bag, balloon, beetle, belly, bilge, billow, bloat, blob, bug out, dilate, distend, enlarge, expand, extrude, jut, overhang, poke, pop out, pouch, protrude, protuberate, puff out, sag, stand out, stick out, swell |
Antonyms: |
cave in, depress |
| Main Entry: | cloud |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | mass of water particles in air |
Synonyms: |
billow, brume, darkness, dimness, film, fog, fogginess, frost, gloom, haze, haziness, mare's tail, mist, murk, nebula, nebulosity, obscurity, ol' buttermilk sky, overcast, pea soup, pother, puff, rack, scud, sheep, smog, smoke, smother, steam, thunderhead, vapor, veil, woolpack |
| Main Entry: | heave |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | discharge with force; expel from digestive system by mouth |
Synonyms: |
billow, breathe, cast, dilate, disgorge, exhale, expand, gag, groan, huff, palpitate, pant, puff, puke, retch, rise, sign, sob, spew, spit up, surge, suspire, swell, throb, throw up, upchuck, vomit |
| Main Entry: | ripple |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | wave; wrinkle |
Synonyms: |
billow, breaker, crest, curl, fold, furrow, line, rippling, rush, surge, swell, tide, undulation, whitecap |
| Main Entry: | rise |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | increase, grow |
Synonyms: |
accelerate, add to, advance, aggravate, arise, ascend, augment, billow, build, bulge, climb, deepen, distend, double, enhance, enlarge, expand, go through the roof, go up, heighten, improve, inflate, intensate, intensify, levitate, lift, magnify, mount, move up, multiply, perk up, pick up, pile up, raise, redouble, rouse, soar, speed up, spread, stack up, swell, take off, upsurge, wax |
| Notes: | to raise is 'to bring something up'; to rise is 'to get up' |
Antonyms: |
decline, decrease, lessen, lower, recede |