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.

Verb

To devour something greedily, gorge, glut.

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, title=Internal Combustion , chapter=2 citation , passage=One typical Grecian kiln engorged one thousand muleloads of juniper wood in a single burn. Fifty such kilns would devour six thousand metric tons of trees and brush annually.}}

To feed ravenously.

(pathology) To fill excessively with a body liquid, especially blood.