0 present participle of engulf
1 to surround and cover something or someone completely:
A tendency toward exactitude arose, at times engulfing everything else.
In these areas it is quite common for disagreements between individuals from the two groups to degenerate into ethnic conflicts engulfing several settlements.
The outer region of the mean-velocity profile grows here, engulfing the log-law region (figure 7a).
It thus comes as no surprise to find much confusion engulfing this category.
The actual entrainment mechanism is a folding in and engulfing of the ambient fluid by movements of the interface which in general have two origins.
Electron microscopy allowed us to observe oocytes engulfing spermatozoa through an endocytosis-like process.
Divorce therefore felt to them like a very new tide of misfortune that was sweeping towards their families, engulfing their children and affecting their grandchildren.
This is an extremely important initiative that goes right to the very heart of the societal change that is engulfing our world at the moment.
