engulf

CEFRC1

/ɪŋˈɡʌlf/

verb

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Sits at C1 on the CEFR scale

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Depression engulfed her after her daughter's death.
Only Noah and his family survived when the Flood engulfed the world.
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.

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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.
2013 June 18, Simon Romero, “Protests Widen as Brazilians Chide Leaders”, in New York Times, retrieved 21 Jun 2013
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.
1934, The Modern Monthly, volume 8, page 308

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From en- + gulf.