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Definition of engulfed

Engulfed
Engulf En*gulf", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Engulfed; p. pr. & vb. n. Engulfing.] [Pref. en- + gulf: cf. OF. engolfer. Cf. Ingulf.] To absorb or swallow up as in a gulf. It quite engulfs all human thought. --Young. Syn: See Absorb.
engulf
Ingulf In*gulf", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Ingulfed; p. pr. & vb. n. Ingulfing.] [Cf. Engulf.] [Written also engulf.] To swallow up or overwhelm in, or as in, a gulf; to cast into a gulf. See Engulf. A river large . . . Passed underneath ingulfed. --Milton.
Engulf
Engulf En*gulf", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Engulfed; p. pr. & vb. n. Engulfing.] [Pref. en- + gulf: cf. OF. engolfer. Cf. Ingulf.] To absorb or swallow up as in a gulf. It quite engulfs all human thought. --Young. Syn: See Absorb.

Meaning of engulfed from wikipedia

- When You Are Engulfed in Flames is a collection of essays by American humorist David Sedaris. It was published on June 3, 2008. Sedaris's sixth book, When...
- In labeling theory, role engulfment refers to how a person's identity becomes based on a role the person ****umes, su****ding other roles. A negative role...
- effort must be undertaken. Half of all entrapment victims eventually become engulfed. A human body in grain takes seconds to sink, minutes to suffocate, and...
- Engulf & Devour's money; she helps Bell and Eggs find him and restore him to sobriety. The film is completed, but the only copy is stolen by Engulf &...
- classics 94233). It was arranged for orchestra by Leopold Stokowski as "The Engulfed Cathedral" and released in a recording in 1930. It appears in a cover version...
- organisms that eons ago acquired their primary chloroplasts directly by engulfing cyanobacteria (e.g., Plantae Cavalier-Smith, 1981). Old definitions of...
- national elections of December 2007 and the violence that subsequently engulfed the country, a commission of inquiry, the Waki Commission, commended its...
- was deposed by the Swedes. In 1609, Sigismund invaded Russia which was engulfed in a civil war, and a year later the Polish winged hussar units under Stanisław...
- once an island, but has been joined to a mainland, another island, or engulfed by a body of water. The process of joining might be the result of volcanic...
- as Hargraves cell, is a neutrophil or macrophage that has phagocytized (engulfed) the denatured nuclear material of another cell. The denatured material...