Engulfed

Definitions: Engulfed

Engulfed

Adjective

1. Rendered powerless especially by an excessive amount or profusion of something; "a desk flooded with applications"; "felt inundated with work"; "too much overcome to notice"; "a man engulfed by fear"; "swamped by work".

2. Completely enclosed or swallowed up; "a house engulfed in flames"; "the fog-enveloped cliffs"; "a view swallowed by night".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "engulfed" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1596. (references)

Synonyms: Engulfed

Crosswords: Engulfed

Books

• Engulfed in a tide of filth (reference)

• Engulfed in War: Just War and the Persian Gulf (reference)

• Emotional Claustrophobia: Getting over Your Fear of Being Engulfed by People or Situations (reference)

• Engulfed from Within: A Lifetime of Poems (reference)

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A low-lying farm being slowly engulfed by the rising waters of a West Virginia stream.Credit: Library of Congress.

One of the last indications of the community founded by the Harmon Society and named Economy. It has since been engulfed by the industrial town of Ambridge, Pennsylvania.Credit: Library of Congress.

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The marvelous new militancy which has engulfed the Negro community must not lead us to distrust of all white people, for many of our white brothers, as evidenced by their presence here today, have come to realize that their destiny is tied up with our destiny and their freedom is inextricably bound to our freedom. (Delivered on the steps at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. on August 28, 1938)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

The idea of the misfortune into which he knew that Thenardier had fallen and been engulfed, intensified his feeling of gratitude.

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Business

The South African Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (SATRA) was scheduled to announce the winning bidder on December 24th, 1999. However, SATRA was engulfed in numerous problems surrounding the bid evaluation process. (references)

Economic History

South Africa

South Africa's reputation has also suffered due to its proximity to the tangle of conflicts that have engulfed its northern neighbors. (references)

Guinea

The civil wars, which engulfed Liberia and then Sierra Leone during the 1990s, have negatively impacted relations between Guinea and these two fellow Mano River Union member countries. (references)

South Africa

Although the tangle of conflict that has engulfed South Africa's neighbors in and around the central African sub-region may have tarnished the region's image, the extent of capital investment expected over the next several years is a clear indication of the region's largely untapped economic potential. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expression using "engulfed": be engulfed. Additional references.

Bulgarian 

потъвам (be engulfed, be lost, go down, go under, lock, plunge, sink, submerge, submerse, subside). (various references)

Chinese 

吞噬 (engulf, Engulfing). (various references)

Finnish

yksinäisyyden tunteen valtaama (engulfed by a sense of loneliness). (various references)

German

verschlungen (convoluted, devoured, gobbled, interlacing), versank. (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

包む (to be engulfed in, to be enveloped by, to wrap). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

すいら�", くるむ (to be engulfed in, to be enveloped by, to conceal, to cover with, to do up, to dress in, to pack, to tuck in, to wrap up), つつむ (to be engulfed in, to be enveloped by, to conceal, to cover with, to do up, to dress in, to pack, to tuck in, to wrap up). (various references)

Manx

sluggit (sunk, sunken, swallowed, swigged). (various references)

Pig Latin

engulfeday

Russian 

поглощать охваченный. (various references)

Welsh

anhuddol (covered). (various references)

Misspellings

"Engulfed" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: egbulefu, Genuflex. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: needful.

-2 letters: deluge, dengue, engulf, fledge, fueled, fugled, gulden, gulfed, legend, lunged, lungee.

-3 letters: elude, endue, feued, flued, flung, fudge, fugle, glede, gleed, glued, ledge, luged, lunge, nudge, undee, unfed, unled.

-4 letters: dele, delf, dene, duel, dune, dung, edge, feed, feel, fend, feud, fled, flee, flue, fuel, fund, geed, geld, gene, genu, gled, glee, glen, glue, gude, gulf, lend, leud, lude, luge, lune, lung, need, nude, unde.

-5 letters: dee, del, den, due, dug, dun, eel, eld, elf, end, eng, fed, fee, fen, feu, flu, fud, fug, fun, ged, gee, gel, gen, gnu, gul, gun, led, lee, leg, leu, lug, nee.

+1 letter: unfledged.

+3 letters: genuflected, unfeignedly.

+5 letters: regardfulness.

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