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I don't see America as a mainland, but as a sea, a big ocean. Sometimes a storm arises, a formidable current develops, and it seems it will engulf everything. Wait a moment, another current will appear and bring the first one to naught.
Jacques Maritain

Meaning of "engulf" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF ENGULF

engulf  [ɪnˈɡʌlf] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF ENGULF

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Engulf is a verb.
The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb engulf in English.

WHAT DOES ENGULF MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of engulf in the English dictionary

The definition of engulf in the dictionary is to immerse, plunge, bury, or swallow up. Other definition of engulf is to overwhelm.


CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO ENGULF

PRESENT

Present
I engulf
you engulf
he/she/it engulfs
we engulf
you engulf
they engulf
Present continuous
I am engulfing
you are engulfing
he/she/it is engulfing
we are engulfing
you are engulfing
they are engulfing
Present perfect
I have engulfed
you have engulfed
he/she/it has engulfed
we have engulfed
you have engulfed
they have engulfed
Present perfect continuous
I have been engulfing
you have been engulfing
he/she/it has been engulfing
we have been engulfing
you have been engulfing
they have been engulfing
Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past
I engulfed
you engulfed
he/she/it engulfed
we engulfed
you engulfed
they engulfed
Past continuous
I was engulfing
you were engulfing
he/she/it was engulfing
we were engulfing
you were engulfing
they were engulfing
Past perfect
I had engulfed
you had engulfed
he/she/it had engulfed
we had engulfed
you had engulfed
they had engulfed
Past perfect continuous
I had been engulfing
you had been engulfing
he/she/it had been engulfing
we had been engulfing
you had been engulfing
they had been engulfing
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future
I will engulf
you will engulf
he/she/it will engulf
we will engulf
you will engulf
they will engulf
Future continuous
I will be engulfing
you will be engulfing
he/she/it will be engulfing
we will be engulfing
you will be engulfing
they will be engulfing
Future perfect
I will have engulfed
you will have engulfed
he/she/it will have engulfed
we will have engulfed
you will have engulfed
they will have engulfed
Future perfect continuous
I will have been engulfing
you will have been engulfing
he/she/it will have been engulfing
we will have been engulfing
you will have been engulfing
they will have been engulfing
The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional
I would engulf
you would engulf
he/she/it would engulf
we would engulf
you would engulf
they would engulf
Conditional continuous
I would be engulfing
you would be engulfing
he/she/it would be engulfing
we would be engulfing
you would be engulfing
they would be engulfing
Conditional perfect
I would have engulf
you would have engulf
he/she/it would have engulf
we would have engulf
you would have engulf
they would have engulf
Conditional perfect continuous
I would have been engulfing
you would have been engulfing
he/she/it would have been engulfing
we would have been engulfing
you would have been engulfing
they would have been engulfing
Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative
you engulf
we let´s engulf
you engulf
The imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Infinitive
to engulf
Past participle
engulfed
Present Participle
engulfing
Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH ENGULF


begulf
bɪˈɡʌlf
gulf
ɡʌlf
ingulf
ɪnˈɡʌlf

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE ENGULF

engrammic
engrasp
engrave
engraved
engraver
engravery
engraving
engraving plate
engrenage
engrieve
engroove
engross
engrossed
engrossedly
engrossing
engrossingly
engrossment
enguard
engulfment
engyscope

WORDS THAT END LIKE ENGULF

Arabian Gulf
Beowulf
Cynewulf
Dvina Gulf
Ethelwulf
Hauraki Gulf
Joseph Bonaparte Gulf
Kynewulf
Leyte Gulf
Lingayen Gulf
Pagasetic Gulf
Persian Gulf
Saronic Gulf
Spencer Gulf
the Gulf
Van Diemen Gulf

Synonyms and antonyms of engulf in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «ENGULF»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «engulf» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of engulf

Translation of «engulf» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF ENGULF

Find out the translation of engulf to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of engulf from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «engulf» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

吞没
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

sepultar
570 millions of speakers

English

engulf
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

निमग
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

بابتلاع
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

поглотит
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

engolfar
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

ঢালা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

engloutir
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Engulf
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

verschlingen
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

包み込む
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

집어삼키다
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Engulf
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

làm tiêu tan
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

விழுங்கி
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

झाकून
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

yutmak
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

travolgere
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

pochłaniać
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

поглине
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

devora
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

καταποντίσει
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

verswelg
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

uppsluka
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

sluke
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of engulf

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «ENGULF»

The term «engulf» is quite widely used and occupies the 54.694 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «ENGULF» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «engulf» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «engulf» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about engulf

EXAMPLES

4 QUOTES WITH «ENGULF»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word engulf.
1
Nuno Bettencourt
When you are in this business and this career, it's hard for any one thing to engulf you.
2
Tre Cool
A lot of drummers get sidetracked by the instrument. It can engulf you.
3
Tre Cool
I had trouble fitting in, in a musical sense. A lot of drummers get sidetracked by the instrument. It can engulf you.
4
Jacques Maritain
I don't see America as a mainland, but as a sea, a big ocean. Sometimes a storm arises, a formidable current develops, and it seems it will engulf everything. Wait a moment, another current will appear and bring the first one to naught.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ENGULF»

Discover the use of engulf in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to engulf and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Engulf--enkindle
Poetry. Translated from the German by Kurt Beals. Anja Utler's poems touch the ground where feeling and thinking begin to take form and burst from the body, burst into language.
Anja Utler, 2010
2
The Flames That Engulf Us
Amber Diaz .4 "1! [0r m'mdhing ' 1111 for anything...“ B)' Amber. F. IA. H. 'T. THE FLAMES THAT ENGULF US THE FLAMES THAT ENGULF US. Front Cover.
Amber Diaz, 2011
3
Marked by God
Shelley Nickles. Engulf me engulf me consume me andallthat is within me andallthat is around me engulf me in allthat you are engulf me cause its all I ever want to be engulf me in your love engulf me in your joy engulf me so that Jesus will ...
Shelley Nickles, 2010
4
Managers and the Legal Environment: Strategies for the 21st ...
The Engulf Corporation is a large media and entertainment conglomerate with its stock trading on the New York Stock Exchange. Engulf is a major producer of films and videos and also publishes several magazines. The company has a ...
Constance E. Bagley, Diane Savage, 2009
5
Human Biology
... membrane CYTOPLASM Secretory vesicle (b) EXOCYTOSIS FIGURE 3-15 Endocytosis and Exocytosis (a) Cells can engulf large particles, cell fragments, and even entire cells via endocytosis. Two types exist: phagocytosis and pinocytosis.
Daniel Chiras, 2011
6
Burket's Oral Medicine: Diagnosis and Treatment
Phagocytic cells express surface glycoproteins and scavenger receptors that are used to recognize and engulf micro- bial organisms and foreign particles.1 There are two types of phagocytes: mononuclear phagocytes or tissue macrophages ...
Lester William Burket, Martin S. Greenberg, Michael Glick, 2003
7
RuneQuest Monsters
The gnome uses its volume to engulf its opponents, opening a pit beneath a foe with a maximum volume equal to the gnome's own volume. If a gnome has one cubic metre per ten SIZ points of its foe, it simply engulfs the legs (or lower third of  ...
Richard Ford, Greg Lynch, 2007
8
Essential AS Biology for OCR
Lymphocytes - act against microorganisms, with some lymphocytes secreting antibodies - a range of glycoproteins that between them immobilise and kill microorganisms and make them ready for phagocytes to engulf. More about this process ...
Glenn Toole, Susan Toole, 2004
9
Biology: The Unity and Diversity of Life
For example, these cells bear receptors for C3 fragments, and they follow gradients of this activated complement back to an affected tissue, where they engulf cells and particles coated with complement. Neutrophils Neutrophils are the most ...
Cecie Starr, Ralph Taggart, Christine Evers, 2012
10
Encyclopaedia of the History of Science, Technology, and ...
... of water from the land (Yolngu knowledge) continually engulf and re-engulf each other on flowing into a common lagoon. In coming together the streams of water mix across the interface of the two currents and foam is created at the surface, ...
Helaine Selin, 1997

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ENGULF»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term engulf is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Game of Brands: Comic-Con Installations Engulf San Diego
When it comes to hyping the latest pop culture spectacles, few are coloring inside the lines at Comic-Con. The frenzied celebration of fantastical ... «NBC 7 San Diego, Jul 15»
2
Council bully crisis widens after ranger's suspected suicide
In a July 7 memo, Ms Barone warned councillors about talking publicly about Mr Lim's death or the bullying scandal threatening to engulf the ... «The Daily Telegraph, Jul 15»
3
Public Release: 9-Jul-2015 Cells help viruses during cell entry
Endosomes are small bubbles of lipids and proteins and they engulf extracellular material, such as nutrients, but also viruses. With the aid of ... «EurekAlert, Jul 15»
4
Firefighters battle flames that ripped through hotel under construction
Firefighters were forced to call in extra units after huge flames engulf a hotel in west Houston, according to the Houston Fire Department. «KPRC Houston, Jul 15»
5
Why My Mad Fat Diary deserves your time
When Rae feels as if the world is closing in on her, the world then literally closes in on her as her own scribbled lines engulf her and block her ... «Den Of Geek, Jul 15»
6
Clare Dyckhoff :13 Things to Remember When You're 13: Advice to …
You might get fed up of those freckles on your face, or the podgy cheeks that engulf your facade, but to a stranger they could be beautiful sun ... «Huffington Post UK, Jul 15»
7
Flames engulf 30-foot motorhome on Lebanon highway
It took 90 minutes for Lebanon firefighters to extinguish a fire that destroyed a 30-foot motorhome late Monday night and early Tuesday morning ... «OregonLive.com, Jul 15»
8
Flames engulf boat in Grand Haven
GRAND HAVEN, Mich. — A boat returning to the Harbor Island boat launch caught fire today at about 4 PM. Around noon, the four people left ... «Fox17, Jul 15»
9
Revelers party on as flames engulf home
Four people have been displaced after a home in San Jose caught fire Saturday night when illegal fireworks landed in the backyard, according ... «SFBay, Jul 15»
10
Flames engulf mboile home
Channel 4's Elizabeth Campbell reports a mobile home fire on Connie Jean Road on the westside where a child has been rushed to the ... «WJXT Jacksonville, Jul 15»

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