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engulfs

engulfs is the third-person singular simple present indicative of engulf.

Meaning of engulf

Verb

engulf (third-person singular simple present engulfs, present participle engulfing, simple past and past participle engulfed)

  1. (transitive) To overwhelm.
    • Depression engulfed her after her daughter's death.
  2. (transitive) To surround; to cover; to submerge.
    • Only Noah and his family survived when the Flood engulfed the world.
    Synonyms:
    swallow
  3. (transitive) To cast into a gulf.

Questions about engulfs

What is engulfs the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Engulfs is the third-person singular simple present indicative of engulf.

Words near engulfs in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: engulfs (page history and authors); engulf (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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