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Meaning engulf meaning

What does engulf mean?

engulf

— verb (= immerse) devote (oneself) fully to He immersed himself into his studies — verb flow over or cover completely The bright light engulfed him completely

Synonyms engulf synonyms

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engulf English » English

swallow absorb submerge overwhelm envelop flood devour swallow up immerse whelm swamp surround steep soak up plunge inundate ingulf guzzle gulp down gobble engross cover whiteout white out veil take over take swig suck strew squat spread through smother sink shroud seize satiate raid pervade paste overrun overgrow overcome occupy occult obstruct obscure obliterate mushroom move in on

Conjugation engulf conjugation

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engulf · verb

Examples engulf examples

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Beware that his shadow does not engulf you like a daemonic nightmare.
The improper handling of such a notion would engulf the country in a panic!
If we lost our power, chaos would engulf everything.
May the wrath of Amdo engulf you!
And it would ooze into the windows and into the doors and engulf the people. It'd eat everything in its way.
Are you going to wait for the sea to engulf us?
Third, more horsemen engulf the enemy ranks as mercilessly as fire.
An evil unlike any you can imagine is about to engulf the Earth.
Four and a half billion years from now when the sun exhausts its fuel and swells to engulf the Earth this expression will still be out there travelling four and a half billion years.
The neck becomes about this wide and swells up to engulf the mouth and the nose so that the person who's on that trip dies through not being able to breathe at all.
But now, a ticking time bomb of hot lava waits to engulf these people and end their miserable lives with one last fleeting moment of excruciatingly painful, burning agony.
Erm, it elongates its mouth to engulf its victim's head with its incisors.
If it breaches quarantine, it will engulf the planet.
Would engulf a man in seconds.
But when the ruthless ambition of a man threatens to engulf the world. it becomes the solemn obligation of all free men. to affirm that the earth belongs not to any one man. but to all men.
The river will become a torrent, a torrent that will engulf. the totalitarian tyranny which seeks to destroy the world.
Thou knowest the dreadful dangers of the deep, the storms that rise, the whirlpools that engulf, the monsters that dwell below, the peril of the Spanish ships.
I wish that a fire would engulf all Bagdad and I'd rescue you.
General Aragas will make himself permanent ruler and embark on a course of international adventurism that would engulf the whole region in war.
El Kebir's release would signal a terrorist uprising that could engulf the whole region in war.
A tendency towards marked schizophrenia was evident, a sickness which threatened to engulf the entire social strata.
Let war engulf the world, if her endless wrath comes such boundless love.
Four and a half billion years from now, when the sun exhausts its fuel. and swells to engulf the Earth, this expression will still be out there, traveling four and a half billion years.
How long till the flames engulf this floor?
Reveries of love will at last engulf you.
The force of the waves will engulf him.
They are associated with great surges of flaming gas tongues of fire which would engulf the Earth if it were this close.
The sun could become a supernova and engulf the entire planet in flames.
They said it would pass close enough to our sun to make it flare and that it would engulf Talthus.
Their proper role is to engulf bacteria and other material which should not be present in the body and destroy it.
The Cave of Swallows in Mexico, 400 meters to the bottom, deep enough to engulf the Empire State Building.
The work of erasing the stains, keeping at bay this chaotic netherworld, which threatens to explode at any time and engulf us.
It'll get so big it will engulf the entire orbits of Mercury, Venus and Earth.
Not content to let our great father die, you start a damn war on the Aventine that threatens to engulf the whole fucking city.
Like the shade of a tree in hot sun. you engulf me in your arms.
But the comet is huge, at 5 kilometers in diameter the ensuing tidal wave will engulf Japan!
His cock throbbed wildly as he watched the sergeant's warm, wet mouth engulf his long, taut tool.

News and current affairs

Grandiloquent as it might sound, the disintegration of the euro and the disarray that would engulf the European project, not to speak of the global repercussions, would unleash comparable devastation.
Now that the booms have been reversed, a decline in confidence could engulf the world economy, throwing it into recession.
Second, US military strikes on Syria have the potential to engulf the entire region - and perhaps the US - in a broader war.
In recent months, the most powerful clan, led by Deputy Head of Kremlin Administration Igor Sechin, whose company, Rosneft, received the biggest chunk of Yukos in 2004, has threatened to engulf the others.
Otherwise, violence will engulf the region and far beyond.
Nor does it indicate that Islamic radicalism is somehow about to engulf or transform Western societies.
Second: they always harbor a dangerous explosive potential and can therefore, at any moment, grow into large-scale conflicts, threatening to engulf us all.

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