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engulf

[en-guhlf]

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verb (used with object)

to swallow up in or as in a gulf; submerge: The overflowing river has engulfed many small towns along its banks.

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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Responding quickly and in large numbers, the bees engulf hornet scouts and generate.

They have developed a journal-publishing culture that threatens to engulf them.

The changes that are about to engulf the wireless industry are as technologically disruptive as was the first mobile phone itself.

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Responding quickly and in large numbers, the bees engulf hornet scouts and generate.

They have developed a journal-publishing culture that threatens to engulf them.

The changes that are about to engulf the wireless industry are as technologically disruptive as was the first mobile phone itself.

Periodically, great dust storms engulf the entire planet.

Maybe it happened to you this morning: you entered the shower and the curtain moved in to engulf you.

Although a whale shark's jaws are large enough to engulf a diver, the sharks don't attack humans.

We are ground zero of an explosion that will engulf all reality.

The plots of these novels differ in no way from the content of films that engulf movie theaters.

Problems that engulf casts of people usually have required casts of people to create.

But if a crisis does engulf the world, that may be a leap some are willing to make.

At that point they expand, becoming large enough to engulf any inner planets.

Such fusion might occur after white blood cells engulf tumor cells.

As our canoes float into the rocky shoal, the lilies seem to engulf us, the giant pale flowers reaching to our chins.

If not, the lava flow will likely slowly engulf the home, crushing it and burning the remains.

Bows, arrows, swords and slingshots threaten to engulf them.

They are a cancer, if left at it is it will engulf the civilization.

As they drowned, and the fire began to engulf the rudder, she grabbed a small board and floated away.

Legal parameters engulf all medical examiner jurisdictions.

Thanks to instant distribution, a personal scandal can occasionally engulf the entire globe.

If those natural dams give way, the water would engulf vast areas downstream, endangering.

As they advance across the forest floor they engulf everything in their path.

In fact, motion-picture production could eventually engulf us.

The crises that engulf us have something in common: they are all problems of democracy.

His imperative is to engulf himself in the intense heat of history by becoming one of the players on the field.

Trim back surrounding plants as needed so they won't engulf the rose bushes.

Yet police officers find themselves vulnerable to the painful psychodramas that engulf other people.

Macedonians were certain that the fighting next door was about to engulf their country.

Burckhardt didn't need to engulf the viewer in humongous blowups.

Then you gave the mix a blast of heat so the oil and broth would come to an excited boil and engulf the aromatics.

As the flames rise to engulf the monster, it will groan in agony, flailing its giant arms.

These scarcely are the accents of comedy, let alone of the knockabout farce soon to engulf us.

Kirchhausen studies the process by which cells engulf proteins and other molecules.

All this became fuel for the fire that would engulf him:.

Instead, a crisis of confidence again threatened to engulf his firm.

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World English Dictionary

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

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Word Origin & History

engulf

1550s, from en- "make, put in" + gulf. Related: Engulfed; engulfing.

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