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Usually means: Surround completely; swallow up entirely.
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engulf :
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engulf : Merriam-Webster
engulf : Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
engulf : American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
engulf : Collins English Dictionary
engulf : Vocabulary.com
Engulf , engulf : Wordnik
engulf : Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
engulf : Wiktionary
engulf : Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
engulf : The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
engulf : Infoplease Dictionary
Engulf , engulf : Dictionary.com
engulf : Online Etymology Dictionary
engulf : Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
Engulf : Online Plain Text English Dictionary
engulf : Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
engulf : Rhymezone
engulf : AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
engulf : Webster's 1828 Dictionary
engulf : FreeDictionary.org
engulf : Mnemonic Dictionary
engulf : TheFreeDictionary.com
engulf : Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Business (1 matching dictionary)
engulf : Legal dictionary
Computing (1 matching dictionary)
engulf : Encyclopedia
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engulf : Idioms
(Note: See
engulfed as well.)
▸ verb : (transitive) To overwhelm.
▸ verb : (transitive) To surround; to cover; to submerge.
▸ verb : (transitive) To cast into a gulf.
absorb ,
immerse ,
plunge ,
steep ,
engross ,
submerge ,
engulph ,
swallow up ,
inundate ,
overwhelm ,
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