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ingulph

ingulph is the obsolete 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 ingulph

third-person singular presentingulphs
present participleingulphing
past participleingulphed
pastingulphed

Questions about ingulph

What is ingulph the obsolete form of?
Ingulph is the obsolete form of engulf.

Words near ingulph in the dictionary

  1. ingulfed
  2. ingulfing
  3. ingulfment
  4. ingulfments
  5. ingulfs
  6. ingulph
  7. ingulphant
  8. ingulphed
  9. ingulphing
  10. ingulphs
  11. ingurgitate

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ingulph (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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