Synonyms of the word

billow

• n. A large wave, swell, surge, or undulating mass of something, such as water, smoke, fabric or sound.
• v. To surge or roll in billows.
• v. To swell out or bulge.

balloon

• n. An inflatable buoyant object, often (but not necessarily) round and flexible.
• n. Such an object as a child’s toy.
• n. Such an object designed to transport people through the air.
• n. (medicine) A sac inserted into part of the body for therapeutic reasons; such as angioplasty.
• n. A speech bubble.
• n. A type of glass cup, sometimes used for brandy.
• n. (architecture) A ball or globe on the top of a pillar, church, etc.
• n. (chemistry) A round vessel, usually with a short neck, to hold or receive whatever is distilled; a glass…
• n. (pyrotechnics) A bomb or shell.
• n. A game played with a large inflated ball.
• n. (engraving) The outline enclosing words represented as coming from the mouth of a pictured figure.
• n. (slang) A woman’s breast.
• v. (intransitive) To increase or expand rapidly.
• v. (intransitive) To go up or voyage in a balloon.
• v. (transitive) To take up in, or as if in, a balloon.
• v. (transitive) To inflate like a balloon.

expand

• v. (transitive) To change (something) from a smaller form and/or size to a larger one.
• v. (transitive) To increase the extent, number, volume or scope of (something).
• v. (transitive) To express (something) at length and/or in detail.
• v. (transitive, algebra) To rewrite (an expression) as a longer, yet equivalent sum of terms.
• v. (transitive, arithmetic) To multiply both the numerator and the denominator of a fraction by the same…
• v. (intransitive) To (be) change(d) from a smaller form/size to a larger one.
• v. (intransitive) To (be) increase(d) in extent, number, volume or scope.
• v. (intransitive) To speak or write at length or in detail.
• v. (intransitive) To feel generous or optimistic.

go

• v. To move.
• v. (intransitive, chiefly of a machine) To work or function (properly); to move or perform (as required).
• v. (intransitive) To start; to begin (an action or process).
• v. (intransitive) To take a turn, especially in a game.
• v. (intransitive) To attend.
• v. To proceed.
• v. To follow or travel along (a path).
• v. (intransitive) To extend (from one point in time or space to another).
• v. (intransitive) To lead (to a place); to give access to.
• v. (copula) To become. (The adjective that follows usually describes a negative state.).
• v. To assume the obligation or function of; to be, to serve as.
• v. (intransitive) To continuously or habitually be in a state.
• v. To come to (a certain condition or state).
• v. (intransitive) To change (from one value to another).
• v. To turn out, to result; to come to (a certain result).
• v. (intransitive) To tend (toward a result).
• v. To contribute to a (specified) end product or result.
• v. To pass, to be used up.
• v. (intransitive) To die.
• v. (intransitive) To be discarded.
• v. (intransitive, cricket) To be lost or out.
• v. To break down or apart.
• v. (intransitive) To be sold.
• v. (intransitive) To be given, especially to be assigned or allotted.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To survive or get by; to last or persist for a stated length of time.
• v. (transitive, sports) To have a certain record.
• v. To be authoritative, accepted, or valid.
• v. To say (something), to make a sound.
• v. To be expressed or composed (a certain way).
• v. (intransitive) To resort (to).
• v. To apply or subject oneself to.
• v. To fit (in a place, or together with something).
• v. (intransitive) To date.
• v. To attack.
• v. To be in general; to be usually.
• v. (transitive) To take (a particular part or share); to participate in to the extent of.
• v. (transitive) To yield or weigh.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To offer, bid or bet an amount; to pay.
• v. (transitive, colloquial) To enjoy. (Compare go for.).
• v. (intransitive, colloquial) To urinate or defecate.
• n. (uncommon) The act of going.
• n. A turn at something, or in something (e.g. a game).
• n. An attempt, a try.
• n. An approval or permission to do something, or that which has been approved.
• n. An act; the working or operation.
• n. (slang, dated) A circumstance or occurrence; an incident.
• n. (dated) The fashion or mode.
• n. (dated) Noisy merriment.
• n. (slang, archaic) A glass of spirits; a quantity of spirits.
• n. Power of going or doing; energy; vitality; perseverance.
• n. (cribbage) The situation where a player cannot play a card which will not carry the aggregate count above…
• n. A period of activity.
• n. (obsolete, British slang) A dandy; a fashionable person.
• n. (board games) A strategic board game, originally from China, in which two players (black and white) attempt…

heave

• v. (transitive) To lift with difficulty; to raise with some effort; to lift (a heavy thing).
• v. (transitive) To throw, cast.
• v. (intransitive) To rise and fall.
• v. (transitive) To utter with effort.
• v. (transitive, nautical) To pull up with a rope or cable.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To lift (generally); to raise, or cause to move upwards (particularly in ships or…
• v. (intransitive) To be thrown up or raised; to rise upward, as a tower or mound.
• v. (transitive, mining, geology) To displace (a vein, stratum).
• v. (transitive, now rare) To cause to swell or rise, especially in repeated exertions.
• v. (transitive, intransitive, nautical) To move in a certain direction or into a certain position or situation.
• v. (intransitive) To retch, to make an effort to vomit; to vomit.
• v. (intransitive) To make an effort to raise, throw, or move anything; to strain to do something difficult.
• n. An effort to raise something, such as a weight or one's own body, or to move something heavy.
• n. An upward motion; a rising; a swell or distention, as of the breast in difficult breathing, of the waves,…
• n. A horizontal dislocation in a metallic lode, taking place at an intersection with another lode.
• n. (nautical) The measure of extent to which a nautical vessel goes up and down in a short period of time…

inflate

• v. (transitive) To enlarge an object by pushing air (or a gas) into it; to raise or expand abnormally.
• v. (intransitive) To enlarge by filling with air (or a gas).
• v. (figuratively) To swell; to puff up.
• v. (transitive, computing) To decompress (data) that was previously deflated.

locomote

• v. (now chiefly biology) To move or travel (from one location to another).

move

• v. (intransitive) To change place or posture; to stir; to go, in any manner, from one place or position to…
• v. (intransitive) To act; to take action; to stir; to begin to act.
• v. (intransitive) To change residence, for example from one house, town, or state, to another; to go and…
• v. (intransitive, chess, and other games) To change the place of a piece in accordance with the rules of…
• v. (transitive, ergative) To cause to change place or posture in any manner; to set in motion; to carry,…
• v. (transitive, chess) To transfer (a piece or man) from one space or position to another, according to the…
• v. (transitive) To excite to action by the presentation of motives; to rouse by representation, persuasion,…
• v. (transitive) To arouse the feelings or passions of; especially, to excite to tenderness or compassion,…
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To propose; to recommend; specifically, to propose formally for consideration…
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To mention; to raise (a question); to suggest (a course of action); to lodge (a…
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To incite, urge (someone to do something); to solicit (someone for or of an issue);…
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To apply to, as for aid.
• v. (law, transitive, intransitive) To request an action from the court.
• n. The act of moving; a movement.
• n. An act for the attainment of an object; a step in the execution of a plan or purpose.
• n. A formalized or practiced action used in athletics, dance, physical exercise, self-defense, hand-to-hand…
• n. The event of changing one's residence.
• n. A change in strategy.
• n. A transfer, a change from one employer to another.
• n. (board games) The act of moving a token on a gameboard from one position to another according to the rules…

soar

• v. to fly aloft with little effort, as a bird.
• v. to mount upward on wings, or as on wings.
• v. to remain aloft by means of a glider or other unpowered aircraft.
• v. to rise, especially rapidly or unusually high.
• v. (figuratively) To rise in thought, spirits, or imagination; to be exalted in mood.
• n. The act of soaring.
• n. An upward flight.

surge

• n. A sudden transient rush, flood or increase.
• n. The maximum amplitude of a vehicle's forward/backward oscillation.
• n. (electricity) A sudden electrical spike or increase of voltage and current.
• n. (nautical) The swell or heave of the sea. (FM 55-501).
• n. (obsolete) A spring; a fountain.
• n. The tapered part of a windlass barrel or a capstan, upon which the cable surges, or slips.
• v. (intransitive) To rush, flood, or increase suddenly.
• v. To accelerate forwards, particularly suddenly.
• v. (transitive, nautical) To slack off a line.

travel

• v. (intransitive) To be on a journey, often for pleasure or business and with luggage; to go from one place…
• v. (intransitive) To pass from here to there; to move or transmit; to go from one place to another.
• v. (intransitive, basketball) To move illegally by walking or running without dribbling the ball.
• v. (transitive) To travel throughout (a place).
• v. (transitive) To force to journey.
• v. (obsolete) To labour; to travail.
• n. The act of traveling.
• n. pl A series of journeys.
• n. pl An account of one's travels.
• n. The activity or traffic along a route or through a given point.
• n. The working motion of a piece of machinery; the length of a mechanical stroke.
• n. (obsolete) Labour; parturition; travail.

wallow

• v. (intransitive) To roll oneself about in something dirty, for example in mud.
• v. to move lazily or heavily in any medium; to flounder.
• v. (intransitive) To immerse oneself in, to occupy oneself with, metaphorically.
• v. (intransitive) To live or exist in filth or in a sickening manner.
• v. (intransitive, Britain, Scotland, dialect) To wither; to fade.
• n. An instance of wallowing.
• n. A pool of water or mud in which animals wallow, or the depression left by them in the ground.
• n. A kind of rolling walk.
• adj. (now dialectal) Tasteless, flat.

wave

• v. (intransitive) To move back and forth repeatedly.
• v. (intransitive) To move one’s hand back and forth (generally above the head) in greeting or departure.
• v. (transitive, metonymically) To call attention to, or give a direction or command to, by a waving motion,…
• v. (intransitive) To have an undulating or wavy form.
• v. (transitive) To raise into inequalities of surface; to give an undulating form or surface to.
• v. (transitive) To produce waves to the hair.
• v. (intransitive, baseball) To swing and miss at a pitch.
• v. (transitive) To cause to move back and forth repeatedly.
• v. (transitive, metonymically) To signal (someone or something) with a waving movement.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To fluctuate; to waver; to be in an unsettled state.
• v. (intransitive, ergative) To move like a wave, or by floating; to waft.
• n. A moving disturbance in the level of a body of water; an undulation.
• n. (physics) A moving disturbance in the energy level of a field.
• n. A shape that alternatingly curves in opposite directions.
• n. (figuratively) A sudden unusually large amount of something that is temporarily experienced.
• n. A sideway movement of the hand(s).
• n. A group activity in a crowd imitating a wave going through water, where people in successive parts of…
• v. Obsolete spelling of waive.

zoom

• n. a humming noise from something moving very fast.
• n. a quick ascent.
• n. a big increase.
• n. an augmentation of a view by varying the focal length of a lens.
• v. to move fast with a humming noise.
• v. to fly an airplane straight up.
• v. to move rapidly.
• v. to go up sharply.
• v. to change the focal length of a zoom lens.
• v. (used with in or out) to manipulate a display so as to magnify or shrink it.