Billow vs Disappear - What's the difference?
billow | disappear |
A large wave, swell, surge, or undulating mass of something, such as water, smoke, fabric or sound
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To surge or roll in billows
* 1920 , , The Understanding Heart , Chapter II:
To swell out or bulge
(label) To vanish.
(label) To make vanish.
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As verbs the difference between billow and disappear
is that billow is to surge or roll in billows while disappear is (label) to vanish.As a noun billow
is a large wave, swell, surge, or undulating mass of something, such as water, smoke, fabric or sound.billow
English
Noun
(en noun)- whom the winds waft where'er the billows roll
- And the brooklet has found the billow / Though they flowed so far apart.
- Have the swirling sands engulfed them, on a noon of storm when the desert rose like the sea, and rolled its tawny billows on the walled gardens of the green and fragrant lands?
Verb
(en verb)- During the preceding afternoon a heavy North Pacific fog had blown in … Scudding eastward from the ocean, it had crept up and over the redwood-studded crests of the Coast Range mountains,
References
disappear
English
Verb
(en verb)Catch 22: A Dramatization, genre=Fiction, publisher=Delacorte Press, passage="Did they disappear' him?" / "I don’t know." / "What will you do if they decide to ' disappear you?"}}
F. E. Penny
Pulling the Strings, passage=A turban and loincloth soaked in blood had been found; also a staff. These properties were known to have belonged to a toddy drawer. He had disappeared .}}