engulfed

Synonyms for engulfed

verb absorb, overwhelm

1550s, from en- (1) "make, put in" + gulf. Related: Engulfed; engulfing.

And then, it was gone entirely, engulfed by the obliterating darkness.

It was Sunday morning, and the holy stillness of the day engulfed our world.

We were expecting every second to be engulfed with the house.

They were interrupted by the sudden quiet that engulfed the room.

He was all Indian now; the streak of smoky white man was engulfed.

Ramon Hamilton had disappeared as if the earth had opened and engulfed him.

It had been but an hour since they watched the first onslaught of this life that engulfed them.

The remorseful past and the pain-filled present engulfed him.

The economic interests of the class may be engulfed in the solidarity of the race.

The stinging flakes blinded him; the coal-black night engulfed him.