"engulf" meaning in English

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Verb

IPA: /ɪŋˈɡʌlf/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-engulf.wav Forms: engulfs [present, singular, third-person], engulfing [participle, present], engulfed [participle, past], engulfed [past]
Rhymes: -ʌlf Etymology: From en- + gulf. Etymology templates: {{prefix|en|en|gulf}} en- + gulf Head templates: {{en-verb}} engulf (third-person singular simple present engulfs, present participle engulfing, simple past and past participle engulfed)
  1. (transitive) To overwhelm. Tags: transitive Translations (overwhelm): համակել (hamakel) (Armenian), обхващам (obhvaštam) (Bulgarian), 吞沒 (Chinese Mandarin), 吞没 (tūnmò) (Chinese Mandarin), overweldigen (Dutch), vallata (Finnish), submerger (French), überwältigen (German), sopraffare (Italian), travolgere (Italian), romi (Maori), roromi (Maori), engolir (Portuguese), engolfar (Portuguese), охва́тывать (oxvátyvatʹ) (Russian)
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  2. (transitive) To surround; to cover; to submerge. Tags: transitive Translations (surround; cover): կլանել (klanel) (Armenian), կուլ տալ (kul tal) (Armenian), поглъщам (poglǎštam) (Bulgarian), 淹沒 (Chinese Mandarin), 淹没 (yānmò) (Chinese Mandarin), bedekken (Dutch), omringen (Dutch), аваш (avaš) (Eastern Mari), engluti (Esperanto), peittää (Finnish), nielaista [figuratively] (Finnish), engloutir (French), engouffrer (French), verschlingen (German), sommergere (Italian), circondare (Italian), cobrir (Portuguese), поглоща́ть (pogloščátʹ) (Russian), засыпа́ть (zasypátʹ) (note: with loose material or figurative) (Russian), залива́ть (zalivátʹ) (english: water) (Russian), kaplamak (Turkish)
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  3. (transitive) To cast into a gulf. Tags: transitive
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The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: engulfer, engulfment, unengulfed

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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        "To cast into a gulf."
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        "(transitive) To cast into a gulf."
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      "rhymes": "-ʌlf"
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    {
      "word": "engulfer"
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    {
      "word": "engulfment"
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      "word": "unengulfed"
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          "text": "Depression engulfed her after her daughter's death.",
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          "ref": "2013 June 18, Simon Romero, “Protests Widen as Brazilians Chide Leaders”, in New York Times, retrieved 2013-06-21:",
          "text": "Shaken by the biggest challenge to their authority in years, Brazil’s leaders made conciliatory gestures on Tuesday to try to defuse the protests engulfing the nation’s cities.",
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          "ref": "1934, The Modern Monthly, volume 8, page 308:",
          "text": "The blank spaces of Mallarmé, the silence of Maesterlinck, the inaniloquous repetitive babblings of Gertrude Stein are the abyss which threatens to engulf creative effort if it continues in this direction.",
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        "To overwhelm."
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        "(transitive) To overwhelm."
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        "To surround; to cover; to submerge."
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        "(transitive) To surround; to cover; to submerge."
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        "To cast into a gulf."
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        "(transitive) To cast into a gulf."
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      "ipa": "/ɪŋˈɡʌlf/"
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      "code": "hy",
      "lang": "Armenian",
      "roman": "hamakel",
      "sense": "overwhelm",
      "word": "համակել"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "obhvaštam",
      "sense": "overwhelm",
      "word": "обхващам"
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      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "overwhelm",
      "word": "吞沒"
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      "code": "cmn",
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      "roman": "tūnmò",
      "sense": "overwhelm",
      "word": "吞没"
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      "code": "nl",
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      "sense": "overwhelm",
      "word": "overweldigen"
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      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "overwhelm",
      "word": "vallata"
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    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "overwhelm",
      "word": "submerger"
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    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "overwhelm",
      "word": "überwältigen"
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    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "overwhelm",
      "word": "sopraffare"
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    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "overwhelm",
      "word": "travolgere"
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    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "overwhelm",
      "word": "romi"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "overwhelm",
      "word": "roromi"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "overwhelm",
      "word": "engolir"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "overwhelm",
      "word": "engolfar"
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      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "oxvátyvatʹ",
      "sense": "overwhelm",
      "word": "охва́тывать"
    },
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      "code": "hy",
      "lang": "Armenian",
      "roman": "klanel",
      "sense": "surround; cover",
      "word": "կլանել"
    },
    {
      "code": "hy",
      "lang": "Armenian",
      "roman": "kul tal",
      "sense": "surround; cover",
      "word": "կուլ տալ"
    },
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      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "poglǎštam",
      "sense": "surround; cover",
      "word": "поглъщам"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "surround; cover",
      "word": "淹沒"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "yānmò",
      "sense": "surround; cover",
      "word": "淹没"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "surround; cover",
      "word": "bedekken"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "surround; cover",
      "word": "omringen"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "surround; cover",
      "word": "engluti"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "surround; cover",
      "word": "peittää"
    },
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      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "surround; cover",
      "tags": [
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      ],
      "word": "nielaista"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "surround; cover",
      "word": "engloutir"
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      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "surround; cover",
      "word": "engouffrer"
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      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "surround; cover",
      "word": "verschlingen"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "surround; cover",
      "word": "sommergere"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "surround; cover",
      "word": "circondare"
    },
    {
      "code": "mhr",
      "lang": "Eastern Mari",
      "roman": "avaš",
      "sense": "surround; cover",
      "word": "аваш"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "surround; cover",
      "word": "cobrir"
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    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "pogloščátʹ",
      "sense": "surround; cover",
      "word": "поглоща́ть"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "note": "with loose material or figurative",
      "roman": "zasypátʹ",
      "sense": "surround; cover",
      "word": "засыпа́ть"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "english": "water",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "zalivátʹ",
      "sense": "surround; cover",
      "word": "залива́ть"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "surround; cover",
      "word": "kaplamak"
    }
  ],
  "word": "engulf"
}

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