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Encircling vs Engulfed - What's the difference?

encircling | engulfed |

As verbs the difference between encircling and engulfed

is that encircling is while engulfed is (engulf).

As an adjective encircling

is enclosing, skirting.

As a noun encircling

is encirclement.

encircling

English

Adjective

(-)
  • enclosing, skirting
    • She felt safe in her mother's encircling arms.

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • encirclement
  • * 1995 , Frank Trommler, Thematics Reconsidered: Essays in Honor of Horst S. Daemmrich
    • If, however, a series of motifs conjoin in their encirclings of a theme - within and beyond the "subtext" - they enliven the interplay among themselves and with the theme to which they are attracted over the turbulent abyss of time and space.

    engulfed

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (engulf)

    • 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.