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engulfment

engulfment noun: the act of engulfing.

Noun

engulfment (countable and uncountable, plural engulfments)

  1. The act of engulfing
    • The cultural engulfment that Jews experience at Christmas1985 December 28, Alia Ever, Bonnie Wolf, “Being Jewish at Christmas”, in Gay Community News, volume 13, number 24, page 5

engulfment meaning in Tamil

engulfment in Tamil

குடாப்படுதல், விழுங்கப் படுதல்

Forms of engulfment

pluralengulfments
alternative formingulfment

Origin of engulfment

From engulf + -ment.

Words formed from engulfment

Questions about engulfment

What does engulfment mean?
Engulfment means the act of engulfing.
What is engulfment in Tamil?
Engulfment in Tamil is குடாப்படுதல், விழுங்கப் படுதல். See Engulfment meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is engulfment?
Engulfment is a noun.
What is the plural of engulfment?
The plural of engulfment is engulfments.

Words near engulfment in the dictionary

  1. engulfasomes
  2. engulfed
  3. engulfer
  4. engulfers
  5. engulfing
  6. engulfment
  7. engulfments
  8. engulfs
  9. engulph
  10. engulphed
  11. engulphing

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Adapted from Wiktionary: engulfment (page history and authors); engulfment (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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