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Engulf vs Englut - What's the difference?

engulf | englut |

As verbs the difference between engulf and englut

is that engulf is to overwhelm while englut is to swallow; to swallow up, 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.

    englut

    English

    Verb

  • To swallow; to swallow up, engulf.
  • *1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.ii:
  • *:Whose grieued mindes, which choler did englut , / Against themselues turning their wrathfull spight, / Gan with new rage their shields to hew and cut [...].
  • To glut, satiate.

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