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Billowed vs Willowed - What's the difference?

billowed | willowed |

As a verb billowed

is past tense of billow.

As an adjective willowed is

abounding in willow trees.

billowed

English

Verb

(head)
  • (billow)

  • billow

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A large wave, swell, surge, or undulating mass of something, such as water, smoke, fabric or sound
  • * Cowper
  • whom the winds waft where'er the billows roll
  • * 18?? , :
  • And the brooklet has found the billow / Though they flowed so far apart.
  • * 1922 , :
  • 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)
  • To surge or roll in billows
  • * 1920 , , The Understanding Heart , Chapter II:
  • 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,
  • To swell out or bulge
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    willowed

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Abounding in willow trees.
  • (Collins)
    (Webster 1913)