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Engulf meaning
To overwhelm. | To surround; to cover; to submerge. | To cast into a gulf.
Example sentences (20)
And several Furries have spoken out about the common misconceptions that engulf the fandom - particularly with regards to it being branded as just a fetish.
Flood water proceeded to engulf the hotel's beloved furniture, swirling around the luxurious chairs.
For much of his political career, including his early years as Florida governor, he was neither closely identified with education policy nor deeply engaged in the debates over race and gender identity that have come to engulf American politics.
In November last year, he the prison administration after they failed to provide him with winter boots as cold temperatures began to engulf Russia.
Joshua Lincoln, a visionary social scientist, set the stage and recognized that our collective future is at stake, with a looming climate disaster threatening to engulf us.
No longer was the Blob simply able to take any hit thrown at him, but he learned how to actually turn his body into a malleable putty, allowing him to stretch, shapeshift, and even engulf his enemies with his raw flesh alone.
She would know instantly if I was upset; I would feel her great love reach out and engulf me.
Smoke and flames engulf the visible area in the 30-second video to the point that only smoke is visible by the end.
UN chief Antonio Guterres on Monday warned that Sudan was on “the edge of the abyss” and that the violence “could engulf the whole region and beyond”.
A day after the flash floods which seemed to engulf much of Malaga city and the wider province, Spain’s State Meteorological Agency AEMET has dropped its red warning and services are slowly returning to normal.
All these women are tent poles holding aloft their respective clans against the lashings of social dissonance, political uncertainty and the discrepancy in wealth that would engulf them if left unchecked.
Authorities in Greece are investigating whether wildfires that threatened to engulf Athens were sparked by a single arsonist.
Debbie Rudd, a homeowner in the area close to Yerby Road, is concerned that a suburban surge is already encroaching on the wetland areas near her home, and that the sprawl will soon engulf a habitat that should remain more country than concrete.
He instantly froze Luffy and then proceeded to engulf the ocean with thick ice in mere seconds.
Neighbours told 9News they heard yelling and ran outside to see flames engulf the home on Brennan Way at Edmonson Park, in Sydney's south-west, about 6.30pm yesterday.
Racing around like a whirling dervish but as he attempted to put out fires in the engine room, but the flames would ultimately engulf him as Forest took control.
The conflict has raised fears around the world that the fighting could spread and engulf the Middle East in a regional war.
The military conflict has already spread to the West Bank and to neighbouring Lebanon, threatening to engulf the region in a wider war.
The strike on a Huthi radar site comes a day after scores of attacks across the country heightened fears that Israel's war with Hamas could engulf the wider region.
After choosing to speak to Ingram, she decided to confront and battle grief, instead of allowing it to engulf her.