Definitions for engulfs

engulfs en·gulf

Spelling: [en-guhlf]
IPA: /ɛnˈgʌlf/

Engulfs is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 139 anagrams from letters in engulfs (efglnsu).

Definitions for engulfs

verb (used with object)

  1. to swallow up in or as in a gulf; submerge:
  2. to plunge or immerse, as into a gulf:

Origin of engulfs

First recorded in 1545-55; en-1 + gulf

Examples for engulfs

Then, like erl-king in the German legends, they broaden out to engulf their opponent.

Using ethnicity for political ends is a dangerous game that will engulf South Sudan if not contained.

Other schools have been shuttered because of attacks and threats stemming from the war that continues to engulf the country.

Suddenly, the screen cuts to FLAMES which engulf the word "COWARDS?!?"

The scale of devastation is now threatening to engulf the amount of resources deployed to control the situation.

Over this body of this hero, rolls the horrible flood that is to engulf France.

We are in a cavern of fire, and in another moment it will engulf us.

This timing may have been a mercy, given the fate that was about to engulf Yugoslavia.

Was it possible so slight an antagonist could engulf the battle cruiser?

Father Hennepin tells us that the stout soul of La Salle quailed before the horrible tumult which threatened to engulf him.

Word Value for engulfs
Scrable

10

Words with friends

14

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