Engulfed

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Engulf \En*gulf"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Engulfed}; p. pr. & vb.
     n. {Engulfing}.] [Pref. en- + gulf: cf. OF. engolfer. Cf.
     {Ingulf}.]
     To absorb or swallow up as in a gulf.
     [1913 Webster]
  


           It quite engulfs all human thought.      --Young.
  
     Syn: See {Absorb}.
          [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  engulfed
       adj 1: rendered powerless especially by an excessive amount or
              profusion of something; "a desk flooded with
              applications"; "felt inundated with work"; "too much
              overcome to notice"; "a man engulfed by fear";
              "swamped by work" [syn: {flooded}, {inundated}, {overcome},
               {overpowered}, {overwhelmed}, {swamped}]
       2: completely enclosed or swallowed up; "a house engulfed in
          flames"; "the fog-enveloped cliffs"; "a view swallowed by
          night" [syn: {enveloped}, {swallowed}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  52 Moby Thesaurus words for "engulfed":
     afloat, at flood, awash, bathed, buried, deluged, dipped, drenched,
     dribbling, dripping, dripping wet, drowned, flooded, immersed,
     in spate, inflood, inundated, macerated, oozing, overflowed,
     overwhelmed, permeated, saturated, seeping, soaked, soaking,
     soaking wet, soaky, sodden, soggy, sopping, sopping wet, soppy,
     soused, steeped, subaqueous, submarine, submerged, submersed,
     sunken, swamped, swept, undersea, underwater, washed, water-washed,
     waterlogged, watersoaked, weeping, weltering, whelmed,
     wringing wet