engulf
/ɪŋˈɡʌlf/ verb B2- To overwhelm. · Depression engulfed her after her daughter's death.
- To surround; to cover; to submerge. · Only Noah and his family survived when the Flood engulfed the world.
- To cast into a gulf.
He/she/it engulfs · Past engulfed · Past participle engulfed · -ing form engulfing
Verb forms
- Base form
- engulf
- He/she/it
- engulfs
- Past
- engulfed
- Past participle
- engulfed
- -ing form
- engulfing
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It is a matter of history—that secret history of a nation which is often so much more intimate and interesting than its public chronicles—that Oberstein, eager to complete the coup of his lifetime, came to the lure and was safely engulfed for fifteen years in a British prison.
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