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What is the verb for engulphed?

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engulf
  1. (transitive) To overwhelm.
  2. (transitive) To surround; to cover.
  3. (transitive) To cast into a gulf.
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  5. Examples:
    1. “Pedestrians were stopped in their tracks, and cars came to a standstill as the huge blanket of smoke threatened to engulf the whole town.”
      “Why was I standing on a porch in the middle of some forsaken jungle waiting for the night to engulf me?”
      “The most common type of granulocyte, the neutrophils, move to infected parts of the body to engulf and consume invading bacteria.”
engulph
  1. Archaic form of engulf.
engulphs
  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of engulph
engulfs
  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of engulf
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  3. Examples:
    1. “The whirl of snow rises up next to me becoming bigger than life, completely engulfs me and quickly passes over.”
      “But I do also wonder about the tsunami of unnecessary expenditure that engulfs so many of us.”
      “Nothing survives of the original garden except the profusion of attractive plant life that engulfs Gordon Town.”
engulphed
  1. simple past tense and past participle of engulph
engulfed
  1. simple past tense and past participle of engulf
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Two friends engulfed in grief held hands helping each other through the difficult time.”
      “The building was engulfed in flames within minutes of the fire starting on the ground floor.”
      “I argued that the washerwoman might have mangled her hand if she was caught in the wringer, but it couldn't have engulfed her entirely.”
engulphing
  1. present participle of engulph
engulfing
  1. present participle of engulf
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  3. Examples:
    1. “The rain stopped and the sun crept out, engulfing the whole garden with its pale gold afternoon light.”
      “He sat alone in the room, darkness engulfing everywhere except for the area touched by the flames of the fire in the large stone hearth.”
      “The coruscating bolt slammed into him, engulfing him in a storm of elements.”
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