| 单词 | billow |
| 释义 | billow (bɪloʊ ) Word forms: billows , billowing , billowed 1. verb When something made of cloth billows, it swells out and moves slowly in the wind. The curtains billowed in the breeze. [VERB] Her pink dress billowed out around her. [V out] ...the billowing sails. [VERB-ing] Synonyms: surge, roll, expand, swell 2. verb When smoke or cloud billows, it moves slowly upwards or across the sky. ...thick plumes of smoke billowing from factory chimneys. [VERB preposition/adverb] Steam billowed from under the bonnet. [VERB preposition/adverb] ...billowing clouds of cigarette smoke. [VERB-ing] Synonyms: flow, course, rush, stream 3. countable noun A billow of smoke or dust is a large mass of it rising slowly into the air. ...smokestacks belching billows of almost solid black smoke. [+ of] Synonyms: surge, wave, flow, rush Collocations: smoke billows He is oblivious of the smoke billowing from one of the towers behind him, white against a hazy blue sky. Times, Sunday Times (2012) A passing motorist who saw smoke billowing from a house stopped to rescue the family inside. Times, Sunday Times (2013) He was at a shop delivering 100,000 of furniture when he spotted smoke billowing from the rear. The Sun (2012) The force of the blast rips off its cover and sends flames and smoke billowing into the air. The Sun (2011) Firefighters rushed to the home after the owners spotted smoke billowing from under roof tiles. The Sun (2013) Steam billows from the ground as if it's an enormous dry-ice machine. Times, Sunday Times Steam billows from its overheated engine as we wait for help. Times,Sunday Times Framed by a circle of cloud, a mushroom plume of brown ash and white steam billows five miles skywards in this image of a volcano erupting, photographed from space. Times, Sunday Times Translations: Chinese: 在风中鼓胀着飘动 Japanese: 膨らむ |
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