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Engulf vs Incorporate - What's the difference?

engulf | incorporate |

In lang=en terms the difference between engulf and incorporate

is that engulf is to surround; to cover while incorporate is to form into a legal company.

As verbs the difference between engulf and incorporate

is that engulf is to overwhelm while incorporate is to include (something) as a part.

As an adjective incorporate is

(obsolete) corporate; incorporated; made one body, or united in one body; associated; mixed together; combined; embodied.

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.

    incorporate

    English

    Verb

    (incorporat)
  • To include (something) as a part.
    • The design of his house incorporates a spiral staircase.
    to incorporate another's ideas into one's work
  • * Addison
    • The Romans did not subdue a country to put the inhabitants to fire and sword, but to incorporate them into their own community.
  • To mix (something in) as an ingredient; to blend
    • Incorporate air into the mixture.
  • To admit as a member of a company
  • To form into a legal company.
    • The company was incorporated in 1980.
  • (US, legal) To include (another clause or guarantee of the US constitution) as a part (of the , such that the clause binds not only the federal government but also state governments).
  • To form into a body; to combine, as different ingredients, into one consistent mass.
  • * Shakespeare
    • By your leaves, you shall not stay alone, / Till holy church incorporate two in one.
  • To unite with a material body; to give a material form to; to embody.
  • * Bishop Stillingfleet
    • The idolaters, who worshipped their images as gods, supposed some spirit to be incorporated therein.

    Derived terms

    * incorporated

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (obsolete) Corporate; incorporated; made one body, or united in one body; associated; mixed together; combined; embodied.
  • * Shakespeare
    • As if our hands, our sides, voices, and minds / Had been incorporate .
  • * Francis Bacon
    • a fifteenth part of silver incorporate with gold
  • Not consisting of matter; not having a material body; incorporeal; spiritual.
  • * Sir Walter Raleigh
    • Moses forbore to speak of angels, and things invisible, and incorporate .
  • Not incorporated; not existing as a corporation.
    • an incorporate banking association

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