Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to engulf
Participle: engulfed
Gerund: engulfing
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | engulf |
| you | engulf |
| he;she;it | engulfs |
| we | engulf |
| you | engulf |
| they | engulf |
Perfect
| I | have engulfed |
| you | have engulfed |
| he;she;it | has engulfed |
| we | have engulfed |
| you | have engulfed |
| they | have engulfed |
Past
| I | engulfed |
| you | engulfed |
| he;she;it | engulfed |
| we | engulfed |
| you | engulfed |
| they | engulfed |
Pluperfect
| I | had engulfed |
| you | had engulfed |
| he;she;it | had engulfed |
| we | had engulfed |
| you | had engulfed |
| they | had engulfed |
Future
| I | will engulf |
| you | will engulf |
| he;she;it | will engulf |
| we | will engulf |
| you | will engulf |
| they | will engulf |
Future Perfect
| I | will have engulfed |
| you | will have engulfed |
| he;she;it | will have engulfed |
| we | will have engulfed |
| you | will have engulfed |
| they | will have engulfed |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | engulf |
| you | engulf |
| he;she;it | engulf |
| we | engulf |
| you | engulf |
| they | engulf |
Perfect
| I | have engulfed |
| you | have engulfed |
| he;she;it | have engulfed |
| we | have engulfed |
| you | have engulfed |
| they | have engulfed |
Imperfect
| I | engulfed |
| you | engulfed |
| he;she;it | engulfed |
| we | engulfed |
| you | engulfed |
| they | engulfed |
Pluperfect
| I | had engulfed |
| you | had engulfed |
| he;she;it | had engulfed |
| we | had engulfed |
| you | had engulfed |
| they | had engulfed |
Conditional
Present
| I | would engulf |
| you | would engulf |
| he;she;it | would engulf |
| we | would engulf |
| you | would engulf |
| they | would engulf |
Perfect
| I | would have engulfed |
| you | would have engulfed |
| he;she;it | would have engulfed |
| we | would have engulfed |
| you | would have engulfed |
| they | would have engulfed |
Imperative
| you | engulf |
| we | Let's engulf |
| you | engulf |
Verbs conjugated like 'engulf'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'engulf'
ingulf,
engild,
engle,
engulph,
gulf,
angel,
angle,
annul,
eagle,
elf,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *h₁én
3. Proto-Italic *en
4. Proto-Italic *en-
5. Latin in-
6. Old French en-bor.
7. Middle English en-
8. English en-
9. English gulf
10. English engulf
11. From en- + gulf.
Sample Sentences
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Depression engulfed her after her daughter's death.
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Shaken by the biggest challenge to their authority in years, Brazil’s leaders made conciliatory gestures on Tuesday to try to defuse the protests engulfing the nation’s cities. [2013 June 18, Simon Romero, “Protests Widen as Brazilians Chide Leaders”, in New York Times, retrieved 21 Jun 2013:]
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The blank spaces of Mallarmé, the silence of Maesterlinck, the inaniloquous repetitive babblings of Gertrude Stein are the abyss which threatens to engulf creative effort if it continues in this direction. [1934, The Modern Monthly, volume 8, page 308:]
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Only Noah and his family survived when the Flood engulfed the world.