Need another word that means the same as “engulf”? Find 13 synonyms and 30 related words for “engulf” in this overview.
The synonyms of “Engulf” are: absorb, engross, immerse, plunge, soak up, steep, inundate, flood, deluge, swamp, wash out, swallow up, submerge
According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “engulf” as a verb can have the following definitions:
absorb | Use or take up (time or resources. Steroids are absorbed into the bloodstream. |
deluge | Inundate with a great quantity of something. Caravans were deluged by the heavy rains. |
engross | Consume all of one’s attention or time. The country had made the best of its position to engross trade. |
flood | Cover or submerge an area with water in a flood. The images flooded his mind. |
immerse | Cause to be immersed. Immerse the paper in water for twenty minutes. |
inundate | Flood. The islands may be the first to be inundated as sea levels rise. |
plunge | Begin with vigor. To peel fruit cover with boiling water and then plunge them into iced water. |
soak up | Submerge in a liquid. |
steep | Devote (oneself) fully to. Steep the blossoms in oil. |
submerge | Put under water. Houses had been flooded and cars submerged. |
swallow up | Tolerate or accommodate oneself to. |
swamp | Drench or submerge or be drenched or submerged. A huge wave swamped the canoes. |
wash out | Be capable of being washed. |
absorb | Take in, also metaphorically. Arms spending absorbs roughly two per cent of the national income. |
awash | Covered with water. The monsoon left the whole place awash. |
blade | Something long and thin resembling a blade of grass. A blade of lint on his suit. |
cascade | Rush down in big quantities like a cascade. Blonde hair cascaded down her back. |
deeply | Intensely. They felt the loss deeply. |
deluge | Charge someone with too many tasks. He has been deluged with offers of work. |
dive | A steep nose-down descent by an aircraft. He hit the sea in a shallow dive. |
drop | An instance of falling or dropping. He had a drop too much to drink. |
drown | Deliberately kill a person or animal by drowning. His voice was drowned out by the approaching engine noise. |
enclose | Enclose or enfold completely with or as if with a covering. Breakwaters enclosed the harbour. |
engross | Produce (a legal document, especially a deed or statute) in its final form. The solicitors will submit a draft conveyance and engross the same after approval. |
envelop | Enclose or enfold completely with or as if with a covering. A feeling of despair enveloped him. |
focus | Adjust the focus of a telescope camera or other instrument. They were focusing a telescope on a star. |
immerse | Cause to be immersed. Immerse the paper in water for twenty minutes. |
immersion | The disappearance of a celestial body in the shadow of or behind another. An immersion school. |
knife | Cut or move cleanly through something with a knife like action. He was knifed to death during the argument. |
occupy | Fill or preoccupy the mind. The young prince will soon occupy the throne. |
overwhelm | Bury or drown beneath a huge mass of something, especially water. Floodwaters overwhelmed hundreds of houses. |
plunge | Dash violently or with great speed or impetuosity. The stock market plunged. |
sheathe | Put (a weapon such as a knife or sword) into a sheath. Sheathe a sword. |
sink | Cause to sink. He saw the coffin sink below the surface of the waves. |
submerge | Descend below the surface of an area of water. The tensions submerged earlier in the campaign now came to the fore. |
submergence | Sinking until covered completely with water. Politicians may be blamed for submergence of principle. |
submerse | Put under water. Pellets were then submersed in agar. |
surround | Surround with a wall in order to fortify. The hotel is surrounded by its own gardens. |
swallow | An amount of something swallowed in one action. She swallowed the last words of her speech. |
sword | One of the suits in a tarot pack. Not many perished by the sword. |
underwater | Situated, occurring, or done beneath the surface of water. Underwater photography. |
waterfall | A steep descent of the water of a river. Each phase of a waterfall project must be complete prior to moving to the next phase. |
withdraw | Withdraw from active participation. It put me off taking the Pill my partner now withdraws. |
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