ENGULFMENTS Synonyms: 39 Similar and Opposite Words

engulfments

noun

plural of engulfment

as in floods

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Noun

Forecasters warned the worst may not yet be over for some Midwesterners, as rivers continued to swell Thursday in states previously struck by this week's floods.

— Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 13 Aug. 2026
The Japan Meteorological Agency issued its most severe warning for heavy rain in 14 municipalities in the Chiba prefecture, warning residents of floods and landslides.

— ABC News, ABC News, 13 Aug. 2026

Definition of floods

Noun

The simple act of passing shares from one generation to another can become a liquidity event in some jurisdictions, and if such outflows are not managed and properly planned for, almost no long-term succession can be successful.

— Radu Magdin, Forbes.com, 10 Aug. 2026
So, when companies that used to routinely print tens of billions in annual free cash flow start putting up immaterial sums — or even outflows — investors understandably start to be concerned.

— Zev Fima, CNBC, 6 Aug. 2026

Definition of outflows

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Joe Biden’s halt to on-shore oil drilling had zero impact on domestic oil prices, post-pandemic demand surges or global supply constraints, but Russia’s invasion of Ukraine did.

— Voice of the People, New York Daily News, 5 Aug. 2026
The recent surges for sellers of computer processors and memory are backed by real revenue and profits, but the exceptional growth won’t be sustainable if AI does not produce as much profit and productivity as hoped.

— Stan Choe, Fortune, 29 July 2026

Definition of surges

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What employees really need is permission expressed in the workflow—a norm that says show your prompts in the doc, credit the model in the brief or tag the slides the avatar drafted.

— Nohar Zmora, Forbes.com, 10 Aug. 2026
Crews, which included members of the California National Guard, had to perform avalanche mitigation work to keep the recovery teams safe from further slides.

— Carlos E. Castañeda, CBS News, 10 Aug. 2026

Definition of slides

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Most of the deaths were in Hengzhou, where the partial collapse of a reservoir dam sent torrents of water into the city and claimed 26 lives, said Ding Wei, the vice mayor of Nanning city, which has jurisdiction over the area.

— ABC News, ABC News, 9 July 2026
One significant problem, however, is that red dwarfs spit out harmful torrents of radiation in fierce gusts of their stellar winds, which can strip away a planet's atmosphere.

— Keith Cooper, Space.com, 2 July 2026

Definition of torrents

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The camp’s history of flooding is long and deadly, with major inundations in 1932, 1978 and 1984, and the flooding of a nearby camp in 1987, Peck family lawsuit said.

— Alaa Elassar, CNN Money, 18 Nov. 2025
In west Carteret and coastal Onslow counties, the NWS warned of up to 2 feet of inundations above ground level in low-lying areas near shorelines and tidal waterways that could result in property damage.

— Joe Edwards, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 Oct. 2025

Definition of inundations

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Fans and former costars alike flooded social media with outpourings of appreciation for his talent and grief at his death.

— ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 7 June 2026
Most of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge lies at least 2,500 meters below the sea, where extreme pressure keeps volcanic gases from expanding and limits eruptions to quiet outpourings of lava.

— Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 26 May 2026

Definition of outpourings

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But in a world where a few basis points separates legends from washouts, a 10-point edge is an enormous windfall for anyone who trusted Kalshi’s numbers over those crunched by CME, the giant futures-exchange operator.

— Liz Hoffman, semafor.com, 6 Aug. 2026
The two subsequent washouts have given Sri Lanka a 1-0 series victory.

— ABC News, ABC News, 8 June 2026

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