Usually means: Surrounds and covers completely; overwhelms.
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General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. engulfs: Merriam-Webster
  2. engulfs: Collins English Dictionary
  3. engulfs: Vocabulary.com
  4. Engulfs, engulfs: Wordnik
  5. engulfs: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. engulfs: Wiktionary
  7. engulfs: Dictionary.com
  8. engulfs: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. engulfs: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. engulfs: Legal dictionary

(Note: See engulf as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (engulf)

verb:  (transitive) To overwhelm.
verb:  (transitive) To surround; to cover; to submerge.
verb:  (transitive) To cast into a gulf.
▸ Also see engulf


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