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单词 engulf
释义
engulf
verb[T]
uk
/ɪnˈɡʌlf/us
/ɪnˈɡʌlf/
tosurroundandcoversomething or someonecompletely:
包围；吞没；淹没
Theflamesrapidlyengulfed thehouse.大火很快吞没了那座房子。
Northernareasof thecountrywere engulfedby/inasnowstormlastnight.昨晚一场暴风雪席卷了这个国家的北部地区。
Thewaristhreateningto engulf theentireregion.战火有可能会席卷整个地区。
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(Definition ofengulffrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

engulf| American Dictionary

engulf
verb[T]
us
/ɪnˈɡʌlf/
tosurroundandcovercompletely:
Floodwaters engulfedmidwesternfarmlands.
(Definition ofengulffrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofengulf

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A tendency toward exactitude arose, at times engulfing everything else.
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In these areas it is quite common for disagreements between individuals from the two groups to degenerate into ethnic conflicts engulfing several settlements.
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Frequently, gliaengulfmodified self during nervous system development.
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The stores were deposited on the bay ice and, due to water flowing over them, much was engulfed.
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First, they mayengulfand mask a theoretically important causal link between marital distress and antisocial behavior that holds for only a subset of children.
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An encapsulated particle is a particle or drop (or, more generally, multiple particles or drops) that is completely engulfed by a second immiscible fluid drop.
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This process forms apoptotic bodies that seem to be engulfed by the oocyte.
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Any solute in the extracellular water will also be engulfed by such -uid-phase endocytosis.
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These methods mainly vary the amount of fluid engulfed into the shear layer and do not directly influence the small-scale mixing.
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The outer region of the mean-velocity profile grows here, engulfing the log-law region (figure 7a).
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It thus comes as no surprise to find much confusion engulfing this category.
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They are about the culture of commercialism that has engulfed medicine and, in the view of our authors, compromised its moral foundations.
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A signalling cascade triggers actin assembly, leading to the formation of cell-surface extensions thatengulfthe anibody-coated pathogen by ' zippering up ' around it.
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The accumulated external cost wouldengulfthe potential revenues, making it no longer financially feasible for water use generation.
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Then the fluid nearest to the vortex is engulfed by it, as it follows a path leading to the vortex core.
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