Synonyms of engulfed

engulfed

verb

past tense of engulf

as in flooded

to cover with a flood

high waves from the hurricane engulfed large areas of the coastal community

Synonyms & Similar Words

• flooded
• overwhelmed
• drowned
• submerged
• inundated
• swamped
• deluged
• overflowed
• flushed
• submersed
• overcame
• gulfed
• smothered
• flowed
• avalanched
• overran
• drenched
• poured
• wet
• soaked
• gushed
• spurted
• streamed
• doused
• sluiced
• spouted

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• drained
• dried
• parched
• dehydrated

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of engulfed

Video released Wednesday morning captured the moments when a Kansas City Police Department detective and a Clay County Sheriff’s deputy rescued a man from a pickup truck that was engulfed in flames. — Kansas City Star, 30 Sep. 2026

His moves have led to hopes of eventual stability in a country that was wracked by civil war and the Islamic State insurgency that engulfed northeast and western Iraq for years. — Matthew Lee, Los Angeles Times, 30 Sep. 2026

Nearby residents videoed the scene from the base of the hill, capturing the house engulfed in flames, with smoke pouring into the night sky. — Zeena Saifi, CNN Money, 29 Sep. 2026

The timing of her return surely coincides with the circumstances surrounding her near death and the grim mysteries that have engulfed the slow horses. — Scott Tobias, Vulture, 23 Sep. 2026

Milestones evoking 2007 tend to make investors squeamish, conjuring up unpleasant memories of the financial crisis that engulfed global markets in 2008. — Fred Imbert, CNBC, 22 Sep. 2026

The mines are among thousands of small-scale and informal mines scattered across Sudan, which has been engulfed in a war that has at times pushed parts of the country into famine. — ABC News, 20 Sep. 2026

In 1948 de Kooning was a decade into her relationship with her husband, Willem de Kooning, and at the center of a cyclone of making and talking and looking that engulfed New York artists of the 1930s and 1940s, from Arshile Gorky to Franz Kline. — Jarrett Earnest, The New York Review of Books, 19 Sep. 2026

With the broader region engulfed in conflict and Saudi Arabia distracted, the Houthis made their move against a coastal Yemeni force that has been left exposed. — Mahad D. Darar, The Conversation, 17 Sep. 2026