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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
engulf .
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Examples
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Come back tomorrow when we'll have the women's 200m final which was postponed today as chaos once again engulfed the games as Cyprus's Eleni Artymata appeals against her disqualification.
Commonwealth Games day seven - as it happened Scott Anthony 2010
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The fire engulfed a karaoke bar situated on the third floor of a commercial building in the city, Indonesia's third largest.
Signs of the Times 2009
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We as a society - including me - have been "engulfed" by television for about 60 years.
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He said at times a racial incident would be exaggerated and people would say South Africa was still "engulfed" in racism.
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Wednesday that the number of scandals that had "engulfed" Faku since he took office as executive mayor in October 2000 was "far too long and comprehensive to ignore any longer".
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ZARRELLA: All of a sudden, there was this big cloud that kind of engulfed the spaceship.
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But granting all this, you feel that these foreign investors are too numerous, that they have too much capital, that they control too much of your business, that they manage these enterprises primarily in their own interest rather than in the Canadian interest; and in short, that you may be-as I have said - "engulfed".
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A formidable addition has since been made to this 'engulfed' family.
Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 457 Volume 18, New Series, October 2, 1852 Various 1836
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Speaking to The AV Club, Currie revealed that she got "engulfed" in the movie, which also stars Kristen Stewart as her former bandmate Joan Jett, and forgot that the film was about her.
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When they arrived home about 30 minutes later, Suedhoff said the house was "engulfed" in flames.
lsj.com - News 2010
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"And I couldn't stop the gloom that engulfed me as I realized I didn't know how long I would have to wait before I saw him again."- Stephanie Meyer, Twilight, pg.111
November 29, 2010