Synonyms of the word engulf


ENGULFABSORB - CENTER - CENTRE - CONCENTRATE - ENCLOSE - ENFOLD - ENGROSS - ENVELOP - ENWRAP - FOCUS - IMMERSE - PLUNGE - PORE - RIVET - STEEP - WRAP

engulf

  • v. (transitive) To overwhelm.
  • v. (transitive) To surround; to cover.

absorb

  • v. (transitive) To include so that it no longer has separate existence; to overwhelm; to cause to disappear…
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To engulf, as in water; to swallow up.
  • v. (transitive) To suck up; to drink in; to imbibe, like a sponge or as the lacteals of the body; to chemically…
  • v. (transitive, physics, chemistry) To take in energy and convert it, as.
  • v. (transitive) To engross or engage wholly; to occupy fully.
  • v. (transitive) To occupy or consume time.
  • v. (transitive) Assimilate mentally.
  • v. (transitive, business) To assume or pay for as part of a commercial transaction.
  • v. (transitive) To defray the costs.
  • v. (transitive) To accept or purchase in quantity.

center

  • n. The point in the interior of a circle that is equidistant from all points on the circumference.
  • n. The point in the interior of a sphere that is equidistant from all points on the circumference.
  • n. The middle portion of something; the part well away from the edges.
  • n. (geometry) The point on a line that is midway between the ends.
  • n. (geometry) The point in the interior of any figure of any number of dimensions that has as its coordinates…
  • n. A place where some function or activity occurs.
  • n. A topic that is particularly important in a given context.
  • n. (basketball) The player, generally the tallest, who plays closest to the basket.
  • n. (ice hockey) The forward that generally plays between the left wing and right wing and usually takes the…
  • n. (American football, Canadian football) The person who holds the ball at the beginning of each play.
  • n. (netball) A player who can go all over the court, except the shooting circles.
  • n. (soccer) A pass played into the centre of the pitch.
  • n. (rugby) One of the backs operating in a central area of the pitch, either the inside centre or outside…
  • n. (architecture) A temporary structure upon which the materials of a vault or arch are supported in position…
  • n. (engineering) One of the two conical steel pins in a lathe, etc., upon which the work is held, and about…
  • n. (engineering) A conical recess or indentation in the end of a shaft or other work, to receive the point…
  • n. (politics) The ensemble of moderate or centrist political parties.
  • adj. Of, at, or related to a center.
  • v. (transitive) To cause (an object) to occupy the center of an area.
  • v. (transitive) To cause (some attribute, such as a mood or voltage) to be adjusted to a value which is midway…
  • v. (transitive) To give (something) a central basis.
  • v. (intransitive) To concentrate on (something), to pay close attention to (something).
  • v. (engineering) To form a recess or indentation for the reception of a center.

centre

  • n. (British spelling, Canadian, Irish, South African, Australian and New Zealand) Alternative spelling of…
  • v. (British spelling, Canadian, Irish, South African, Australian and New Zealand) Alternative spelling of…

concentrate

  • v. (transitive, intransitive) To bring to, or direct toward, a common center; to unite more closely; to gather…
  • v. To increase the strength and diminish the bulk of, as of a liquid or an ore; to intensify, by getting…
  • v. To approach or meet in a common center; to consolidate.
  • v. (intransitive) To focus one's thought or attention (on).
  • n. A substance that is in a condensed form.

enclose

  • v. (transitive) To surround with a wall, fence, etc.
  • v. (transitive) To insert into a container, usually an envelope or package.
  • v. (intransitive) To hold or contain.

enfold

  • v. To fold something around; to envelop.
  • v. To embrace.

engross

  • v. (transitive, now law) To write (a document) in large, aesthetic, and legible lettering; to make a finalized…
  • v. (transitive, business, obsolete) To buy up wholesale, especially to buy the whole supply of (a commodity…
  • v. (transitive) To monopolize; to concentrate (something) in the single possession of someone, especially…
  • v. (transitive) To completely engage the attention of.
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To thicken; to condense.
  • v. To make gross, thick, or large; to thicken; to increase in bulk or quantity.
  • v. (obsolete) To amass.

envelop

  • v. (transitive) To surround or enclose.

enwrap

  • v. To wrap around, surround; to envelop.
  • v. To absorb completely or engross.

focus

  • n. (countable, optics) A point at which reflected or refracted rays of light converge.
  • n. (countable, geometry) A point of a conic at which rays reflected from a curve or surface converge.
  • n. (uncountable, photography, cinematography) The fact of the convergence of light on the photographic medium.
  • n. (uncountable, photography, cinematography) The quality of the convergence of light on the photographic…
  • n. (uncountable) Concentration of attention.
  • n. (countable, seismology) The exact point of where an earthquake occurs, in three dimensions (underneath…
  • n. (computing, graphical user interface) The indicator of the currently active element in a user interface.
  • n. (linguistics) The most important word or phrase in a sentence or passage, or the one that imparts information.
  • v. (transitive) To cause (rays of light, etc) to converge at a single point.
  • v. (transitive) To adjust (a lens, an optical instrument) in order to position an image with respect to the…
  • v. (transitive, followed by on or upon) To concentrate one's attention.
  • v. (intransitive) To concentrate one’s attention.
  • v. (computing, graphical user interface, transitive) To transfer the input focus to (a visual element), so…

immerse

  • v. (transitive) To put under the surface of a liquid; to dunk.
  • v. (transitive) To involve deeply.
  • v. (mathematics) Map into an immersion.
  • adj. (obsolete) Immersed; buried; sunk.

plunge

  • n. the act of plunging or submerging.
  • n. a dive, leap, rush, or pitch into (into water).
  • n. (dated) A swimming pool.
  • n. (figuratively) the act of pitching or throwing oneself headlong or violently forward, like an unruly horse.
  • n. (slang) heavy and reckless betting in horse racing; hazardous speculation.
  • n. (obsolete) an immersion in difficulty, embarrassment, or distress; the condition of being surrounded or…
  • v. (transitive) To thrust into water, or into any substance that is penetrable; to immerse.
  • v. (figuratively, transitive) To cast or throw into some thing, state, condition or action.
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To baptize by immersion.
  • v. (intransitive) To dive, leap or rush (into water or some liquid); to submerge oneself.
  • v. (figuratively, intransitive) To fall or rush headlong into some thing, action, state or condition.
  • v. (intransitive) To pitch or throw oneself headlong or violently forward, as a horse does.
  • v. (intransitive, slang) To bet heavily and with seeming recklessness on a race, or other contest; in an…
  • v. (intransitive, obsolete) To entangle or embarrass (mostly used in past participle).
  • v. (intransitive, obsolete) To overwhelm, overpower.

pore

  • n. A tiny opening in the skin.
  • n. By extension any small opening or interstice, especially one of many, or one allowing the passage of a…
  • v. to study meticulously; to go over again and again.
  • v. to meditate or reflect in a steady way.

rivet

  • n. A cylindrical mechanical fastener that attaches multiple parts together by fitting through a hole and…
  • n. (figuratively) Any fixed point or certain basis.
  • n. (obsolete) A light kind of footman's armour (back-formation from almain-rivet).
  • v. (transitive) To attach or fasten parts by using rivets.
  • v. (transitive) To install rivets.
  • v. (transitive) To command the attention of.

steep

  • adj. Of a near-vertical gradient; of a slope, surface, curve, etc. that proceeds upward at an angle near vertical.
  • adj. (informal) expensive.
  • adj. (obsolete) Difficult to access; not easy reached; lofty; elevated; high.
  • adj. (of the rake of a ship's mast, or a car's windshield) resulting in a mast or windshield angle that strongly…
  • v. (transitive, intransitive) To soak an item (or to be soaked) in liquid in order to gradually add or remove…
  • v. (intransitive) To imbue with something.
  • n. A liquid used in a steeping process.
  • n. A rennet bag.

wrap

  • v. (transitive) To enclose (an object) completely in any flexible, thin material such as fabric or paper.
  • v. (transitive) To enclose or coil around an object or organism, as a form of grasping.
  • v. (figuratively) To conceal by enveloping or enfolding; to hide.
  • v. (transitive or intransitive, video production) To finish shooting (filming) a video, television show,…
  • v. (lines, words, text, etc.) To break a continuous line (of text) onto the next line.
  • v. (computing, transitive) To make functionality available through a software wrapper.
  • n. A garment that one wraps around the body to keep oneself warm.
  • n. A type of food consisting of various ingredients wrapped in a tortilla or pancake.
  • n. (entertainment) The completion of all or a major part of a performance.
  • n. A wraparound mortgage.

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