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Word entry · 6 letters

engulf

Best crossword clue

"Swallow up"

6 letters · collected on this word page

6 lettersPronunciation /ɪŋˈɡʌlf/Part of speech verbSorted efglnuStarts with EEnds with F1 cluesCommon crossword word
1E2N3G4U5L6F

Definitions

  1. devote (oneself) fully to

Word origin

From en- + gulf.

Used in a sentence

  • Depression engulfed her after her daughter's death.
  • Shaken by the biggest challenge to their authority in years, Brazil’s leaders made conciliatory gestures on Tuesday to try to defuse the protests engulfing the nation’s cities.
  • The blank spaces of Mallarmé, the silence of Maesterlinck, the inaniloquous repetitive babblings of Gertrude Stein are the abyss which threatens to engulf creative effort if it continues in this direction.

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