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| —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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Example sentences
As our canoes float into the rocky shoal, the lilies seem to engulf us, the giant pale flowers reaching to our chins.
The changes that are about to engulf the wireless industry are as technologically disruptive as was the first mobile phone itself.
As they advance across the forest floor they engulf everything in their path.
Legal parameters engulf all medical examiner jurisdictions.
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