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engulph

engulph is the archaic form 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.

Forms of engulph

third-person singular presentengulphs
present participleengulphing
past participleengulphed
pastengulphed

Questions about engulph

What is engulph the archaic form of?
Engulph is the archaic form of engulf.

Words near engulph in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: engulph (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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