engulf
Collocations
4ADJ.
creative, deep
VERB + ENGULF
predicted, services, sleep, threatens, wants
ENGULF + NOUN
country, effort, poverty, town
PREP.
in
Definitions
verb
To overwhelm.
Depression engulfed her after her daughter's death.
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.
To surround; to cover; to submerge.
Only Noah and his family survived when the Flood engulfed the world.
To cast into a gulf.
Thesaurus
Idioms & Phrases
Example Bank
6Depression engulfed her after her daughter's death.
WiktionaryShaken 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.
WiktionaryThe 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 direc
WiktionaryThe flood waters are predicted to engulf the town.
Tatoeba · #6214399Learning their religion will just engulf you in poverty.
Tatoeba · #10503862May deep sleep engulf you, so that you rest from insomnia!
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