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Engulfing

To overwhelm.

📖 Definitions of "Engulfing"

verb
  1. 1

    To overwhelm.

    "Desperation engulfed her after her daughter's death."

  2. 2

    To surround; to cover.

    "Only Noah and his family survived when the Flood engulfed the world."

  3. 3

    To cast into a gulf.

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