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engulf
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guhlf
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en·gulf
/
ɛnˈgʌlf
/
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[
en-
guhlf
]
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verb (used with object)
1.
to swallow up in or as in a
gulf
;
submerge:
The overflowing river has engulfed many small towns along its banks.
2.
to plunge or immerse, as into a
gulf
:
He engulfed himself in his studies.
Also,
ingulf.
Origin:
1545–55;
en-
1
+
gulf
Related forms
en·gulf·ment,
noun
Synonyms
1.
envelop, bury, inundate, deluge, swamp.
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Such fusion might occur after white blood cells engulf tumor cells.
Maybe it happened to you this morning: you entered the shower and the curtain moved in to engulf you.
These scarcely are the accents of comedy, let alone of the knockabout farce soon to engulf us.
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Such fusion might occur after white blood cells engulf tumor cells.
Maybe it happened to you this morning: you entered the shower and the curtain moved in to engulf you.
These scarcely are the accents of comedy, let alone of the knockabout farce soon to engulf us.
Thanks to instant distribution, a personal scandal can occasionally engulf the entire globe.
If not, the lava flow will likely slowly engulf the home, crushing it and burning the remains.
Problems that engulf casts of people usually have required casts of people to create.
They have developed a journal-publishing culture that threatens to engulf them.
As they advance across the forest floor they engulf everything in their path.
They are a cancer, if left at it is it will engulf the civilization.
At that point they expand, becoming large enough to engulf any inner planets.
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engulf
or
ingulf
(ɪnˈɡʌlf)
—
vb
1.
to immerse, plunge, bury, or swallow up
2.
(
often passive
) to overwhelm:
engulfed by debts
ingulf
or
ingulf
—
vb
en'gulfment
or
ingulf
—
n
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 10th Edition
2009 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins
Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009
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Word Origin & History
engulf
1550s, from en- "make, put in" +
gulf
. Related: Engulfed; engulfing.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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