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Engulf

//ɪŋˈɡʌlf// verb

Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To overwhelm. transitive

    "Depression engulfed her after her daughter's death."

  2. 2
    devote (oneself) fully to wordnet
  3. 3
    To surround; to cover; to submerge. transitive

    "Only Noah and his family survived when the Flood engulfed the world."

  4. 4
    flow over or cover completely wordnet
  5. 5
    To cast into a gulf. transitive

Etymology

From en- + gulf.

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