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Blown vs Billow - What's the difference?

blown | billow |

As verbs the difference between blown and billow

is that blown is while billow is to surge or roll in billows.

As an adjective blown

is distended, swollen or inflated.

As a noun billow is

a large wave, swell, surge, or undulating mass of something, such as water, smoke, fabric or sound.

blown

English

Adjective

(-)
  • distended, swollen or inflated
    • Cattle are said to be blown when gorged with green food which develops gas.
  • panting and out of breath
  • (of glass) Formed by blowing
  • Under the influence of drugs, especially marijuana.
  • (obsolete) stale; worthless
  • * Sir Walter Scott
    • Their horses much blown .
  • Covered with the eggs and larvae of flies; flyblown.
  • (automotive) Given a hot rod blower

    • Derived terms

    * endblown * full-blown * sideblown

    Verb

    (head)
    • English irregular past participles

    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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