engulf

English

Etymology

en- +‎ gulf

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ʌlf

Verb

engulf (third-person singular simple present engulfs, present participle engulfing, simple past and past participle engulfed)

1. (transitive) To overwhelm.

   Desperation engulfed her after her daugther's death.

2. (transitive) To surround; to cover.

   Only Noah survived when the Flood engulfed earth.

Translations

overwhelm

Bulgarian: обхващам (bg) Dutch: overweldigen (nl)

Finnish: vallata (fi) Italian: sopraffare (it), travolgere (it)

surround; cover

Arabic: please add this translation if you can Armenian: please add this translation if you can Mandarin: please add this translation if you can Bulgarian: поглъщам (bg) Chinese: Dutch: bedekken (nl),omringen (nl) Esperanto: please add this translation if you can Finnish: peittää; (figuratively) nielaista

French: please add this translation if you can German: please add this translation if you can Italian: sommergere (it), circondare (it) Japanese: please add this translation if you can Korean: please add this translation if you can Russian: поглощать (ru) (pogloščát’) Thai: please add this translation if you can Turkish: kaplamak (tr)