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Beleaguered vs Engulf - What's the difference?

beleaguered | engulf |

As verbs the difference between beleaguered and engulf

is that beleaguered is past tense of beleaguer while engulf is to overwhelm.

As an adjective beleaguered

is besieged; surrounded by enemy troops.

beleaguered

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Besieged; surrounded by enemy troops.
  • *1990 , (Peter Hopkirk), The Great Game , Folio Society 2010, p. 220:
  • *:4,500 British and Indian troops and twelve thousand camp-followers, including some three dozen British wives, children and nannies, found themselves beleaguered in what Kaye described as little better than ‘sheep-folds on the plain’.
    • a beleaguered stronghold
    a beleaguered town
  • Beset by trouble or difficulty.
  • *{{quote-news, year=2012
    • , date=May 5 , author=Phil McNulty , title=Chelsea 2-1 Liverpool , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=Chelsea were coping comfortably as Liverpool left Luis Suarez too isolated. Steven Gerrard was also being forced to drop too deep to offer support to the beleaguered Jay Spearing and Jordan Henderson rather than add attacking potency alongside the Uruguayan.}}
    a beleaguered ego
    a beleaguered identity
    a beleaguered real estate market

    Antonyms

    * unbeleaguered

    Verb

    (head)
  • (beleaguer)

    • engulf

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To overwhelm.
    • Desperation engulfed her after her daughter's death.
  • * 2013 June 18, , " Protests Widen as Brazilians Chide Leaders," New York Times (retrieved 21 June 2013):
    • 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.
  • To surround; to cover.
    • Only Noah and his family survived when the Flood engulfed earth.