engulf
verb/ɪŋˈɡʌlf/
Etymology
Definitions
To overwhelm.
- Depression engulfed her after her daughter's death.
- 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.
- The blank spaces of Mallarmé, the silence of Maesterlinck, the inaniloquous repetitive babblings of Gertrude Stein are the abyss which threatens to engulf creative effort if it continues in this direction.
To surround
To surround; to cover; to submerge.
- Only Noah and his family survived when the Flood engulfed the world.
To cast into a gulf.
The neighborhood
Derived
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at engulf. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at engulf. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
7 hops · closes at engulf
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
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