verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a wave engulfs sb/sth (= it affects someone or something very strongly )
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The city was engulfed by a fresh wave of violence.
flames engulf sth (= they completely surround and burn something )
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Flames quickly engulfed the building.
nausea sweeps over/engulfs sb formal:
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Nausea swept over him when he tried to stand.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
flame
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Finally the flame would engulf his head and he'd explode in a furious orange ball of flame.
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This home video was taken by a passer-by and shows how quickly the flames engulfed the building.
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The flames quickly engulfed the entire hangar, lighting up the night sky.
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Within and without, flame engulfed the fallen plate-district.
■ VERB
threaten
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With many more countries still to declare the size of their teams, the problem threatens to engulf the organising committee.
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The worst danger women face is unemployment, which threatens to engulf them in the coming decade.
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And I lay where I fell, fighting to hold back the tears which threatened to engulf me.
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The realisation left him with a feeling of anguish so great that it threatened to engulf him.
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Meanwhile Plehve's undefeated Fifth Army had turned about and was threatening to engulf Dankl's now unprotected right flank.
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Is he completely insensitive to the economic, social and financial crisis that now threatens to engulf the Western Isles?
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Civil war has completely engulfed the country.
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Fear engulfed him as he approached the microphone.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Global warming will cause the seas to rise, engulfing islands and flooding coastal areas.
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He comes across in large, energetic, engulfing, captivating waves, at once friendly and disturbing.
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Her self-criticism of the paternalistic atmosphere which she allowed to engulf her in her early insecurity is devastating.
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Isolated houses occasionally disappear, engulfed by the vortex of quarries.
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She would willingly have engulfed the baby.
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The medium is the message because the message, the culture and ideology of consumerism, has engulfed the medium.
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These engulfed some older villages, such as Gosforth, which are now smaller shopping centres within the conurbation.