engulf in English

verb
1
(of a natural force) sweep over (something) so as to surround or cover it completely.
the cafe was engulfed in flames

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1. It appeared this might engulf the entire bridge.

2. The war is threatening to engulf the entire region.

3. What fears and gloom engulf the world of commerce?

4. During Autophagy, Autophagosomes engulf cytoplasmic components, including cytosolic proteins and organelles

5. Desire, could engulf our feeling, sense, even everything sometimes.

6. When waters engulf us we reach for a star.

7. Be like an island that no flood can engulf.

8. The fire spread quickly via stairways to engulf the entire building.

9. The new bacterial forms were versatile and energetic, and could engulf other bacteria.

10. The events and power struggles which engulf them result in kidnapping, jealousy and romance!

11. In the span of thirty years, such carnage would twice engulf this continent.

12. Bushwa is a piece of bushveld paradise designed to relax the soul and engulf the senses.

13. Jaq doubted that even the most towering of storms could engulf the uppermost reaches of Vasilariov.

14. Together with our friends and allies, we will work to shape change, lest it engulf us.

15. The worst danger women face is unemployment, which threatens to engulf them in the coming decade.

16. Amnion is one of the two foetal membranes (FMs), which engulf the embryo during intrauterine development

17. And I lay where I fell, fighting to hold back the tears which threatened to engulf me.

18. Europe is a powder keg waiting to explode in a war that will engulf the entire continent.

19. The realisation left him with a feeling of anguish so great that it threatened to engulf him.

20. The smallest particles do the most damage, killing macrophages that engulf them in the pulmonary alveoli.

21. Some dust storms are intercontinental, a few may circle the globe, and occasionally they may engulf entire planets.

22. The animals which fought there gave little heed to defence; they massed around them and tried to engulf them.

23. Finally the flame would engulf his head and he'd explode in a furious orange ball of flame.

24. The most powerful such beings, often known as Blazing Afreets, are able to engulf a being in a mystical fire.

25. Is he completely insensitive to the economic, social and financial crisis that now threatens to engulf the Western Isles?

26. Darkness seemed to engulf them as they disappeared, swallowed up in a kind of tunnel way, running deep underground.

27. With many more countries still to declare the size of their teams, the problem threatens to engulf the organising committee.

28. And in the United States, it was the Gilded Age that saw the new industrial economy engulf the entire continent.

29. She adds: “As I deal with couples in the throes of marital distress two feelings engulf me —compassion and anger.

30. However, some of the particles become impacted at alveolar duct bifurcations, where macrophages accumulate and engulf the trapped particulates.

31. I lay rigid, willing myself into the exhausted stupor that I knew was there waiting to engulf me again.

32. Searing, excruciating agony ripped through his hand and up his arm until it seemed to engulf his entire body.

33. The date was referred to later in the document as the year that coups d'etat would engulf Europe and overthrow the elite he maligns.

34. Composition No. 79 manifests a cragginess and complexity that engulf the overall image but the aesthetic conclusion is astoundingly sublime and pleasing to the eye.

35. Since nature is inclined and that humanity is preparing to face a sad end, there appears a growing area of abnormality in Antarctica, threatening to engulf the world.

36. Ms. Merkel, Germany's latest Iron Chancellor, has set her face against any of the measures that might stem the tide that is about to engulf the euro.

37. The bacterium is oval in shape, resembling a TicTac, and has a thick, sugar-filled outer coat, which makes it difficult for white blood cells to engulf and destroy it.

38. The idea that some sort of political crisis could engulf China in the coming years may strike many – particularly Western business and political elites, who have taken the CCP’s strength and durability for granted – as absurd.

39. Basophile: 1 n a leukocyte with basophilic granules easily stained by basic stains Synonyms: basophil Type of: WBC , leucocyte , leukocyte , white blood cell , white blood corpuscle , white cell , white corpuscle blood cells that engulf and digest bacteria and fungi; an …

40. RACISM and Casteism are the evils that repeatedly try to engulf society. Racism, Casteism and Islam "Though we believe Casteism is the bane of only Hinduism, it has already been percolated into other religions too," she said

41. 29 Yea, we see that whosoever will may lay hold upon the aword of God, which is bquick and powerful, which shall cdivide asunder all the cunning and the snares and the wiles of the devil, and lead the man of Christ in a strait and dnarrow course across that everlasting egulf of misery which is prepared to engulf the wicked—