Engulf synonyms
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To affect deeply in mind or emotion:
Submerge is defined as to cover over, or to place or go under water.
To put (a dead body) into the earth, a tomb, or the sea, usually in a ceremonial manner; inter
To deluge is defined as to flood or to overwhelm someone with anything.
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To kill by submerging and suffocating in water or another liquid.
To envelop or engulf:
To become full of water or sink.
To overwhelm.
To start up from cover
To crush is defined as to press hard enough to injure, break into small pieces or beat down emotionally.
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To deal with successfully; prevail over; surmount:
To overcome or vanquish by superior force; subdue.
Growing flat along the ground. Creeping jenny, pennyroyal, and many species of ivy have a prostrate growth habit.
full (related)
To increase the density and usually the thickness of (cloth) by shrinking and beating or pressing.
affect (related)
To make a show of; to put on a pretence of; to feign; to assume. To make a false display of. [from 16th c.]
To be steeped
The definition of immerse is to dip or put something completely into a liquid, or to totally absorb yourself in a particular activity.
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The definition of absorb means to completely have someone’s attention.
To have a boundless supply; be superabundant.
To write out in large letters of a kind once used for legal documents
sink (related)
To feel great disappointment or discouragement:
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envelop (related)
shatter (related)
suffocate (related)
devastate (related)
smother (related)
enshroud (related)
annihilate (related)
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erupt (related)
Find another word for engulf. In this page you can discover 36 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for engulf, like: inundate, overwhelm, swallow-up, consume, submerge, bury, deluge, drown, flood, swallow and swamp.