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engulf

/ɪŋˈɡʌlf/ verbo B2

En español: envolver, sepultar, tragar, engullir

  1. To overwhelm. (transitive) · Depression engulfed her after her daughter's death.
  2. To surround; to cover; to submerge. (transitive) · Only Noah and his family survived when the Flood engulfed the world.
  3. To cast into a gulf. (transitive)

He/she/it engulfs · Pasado engulfed · Participio pasado engulfed · Forma en -ing engulfing

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Forma en -ing
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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.
Sherlock Holmes: The Bruce-Partington Plans, p. 40 · B2

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