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Meaning of ENGULFED

Pronunciation:  eng'ulft

 
WordNet Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
  1. [adj]  completely enclosed or swallowed up; "a house engulfed in flames"; "the fog-enveloped cliffs"; "a view swallowed by night"
  2. [adj]  rendered powerless especially by an excessive amount or profusion of something; "a desk flooded with applications"; "felt inundated with work"; "too much overcome to notice"; "a man engulfed by fear"; "swamped by work"
 

ENGULFED is a 8 letter word that starts with E.

 

 Synonyms: enclosed, enveloped, flooded, inundated, overcome, overpowered, overwhelmed, powerless, swallowed, swamped, weak
 

 

 

Thesaurus Terms
 
 Related Terms: afloat, at flood, awash, bathed, buried, deluged, dipped, drenched, dribbling, dripping, dripping wet, drowned, flooded, immersed, in spate, inflood, inundated, macerated, oozing, overflowed, overwhelmed, permeated, saturated, seeping, soaked, soaking, soaking wet, soaky, sodden, soggy, sopping, sopping wet, soppy, soused, steeped, subaqueous, submarine, submerged, submersed, sunken, swamped, swept, undersea, underwater, washed, waterlogged, watersoaked, water-washed, weeping, weltering, whelmed, wringing wet
 

 

 

 

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