engulfment

noun

Definition of engulfmentnext
as in inundation

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for engulfment
  1. surge
  2. outflow
  3. flood
  4. outpouring
  5. washout
  6. discharge
  7. slide
  8. flood tide
Noun
  • The hurricane caused severe damage along Florida's East Coast, bringing strong winds, storm surge, and torrential rainfall.
    Brandi D. Addison, Austin American-Statesman, 21 Nov. 2024
  • This week, the full-length surges from No. 91 to No. 64 on the Official Albums Sales ranking.
    Hugh McIntyre, Forbes, 21 Nov. 2024
Definition of surge
Noun
  • Cash flow from operating activities was negative, with a net cash outflow of $59,477.
    Quartz Bot, Quartz, 14 Nov. 2024
  • If approved, this could make some of the best performing mutual funds more easily accessible to investors, while also helping to stem outflows from asset managers by clients who prefer ETFs.
    Jesse Pound, CNBC, 5 Nov. 2024
Definition of outflow
Noun
  • Address Buyer Skepticism And AI Overload Many buyers have heard lofty claims about how AI will solve their problems from a flood of vendors.
    Evan Powell, Forbes, 21 Nov. 2024
  • Ahead of Black Friday and Cyber Monday, there's already a flood of early Cyber Week sales coming in.
    Alexis Simmerman, Austin American-Statesman, 20 Nov. 2024
Definition of flood
Noun
  • In October, an outpouring of tributes and support arrived from close friends, family, and collaborators who mourned Payne.
    Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 20 Nov. 2024
  • This leads to a huge amount of enthusiasm and outpourings of love: The second side of this two-pronged online reaction is pure disbelief at the strangeness of the sight.
    Callum Booth, Forbes, 30 Oct. 2024
Definition of outpouring
Noun
  • Still, Thursday wasn’t a complete washout, thanks in part to cruise ships and cigarettes.
    Stan Choe, Los Angeles Times, 31 Oct. 2024
  • Friday, day two of the four-day festival, was a washout.
    Kirby Adams, The Courier-Journal, 30 Sep. 2024
Definition of washout
Noun
  • Symptoms of bird flu in humans can include eye redness or discharge, cough, sore throat, runny or stuffy nose, diarrhea, vomiting, muscle or body aches, headaches, fatigue, trouble breathing, high fever, pneumonia and seizures, according to medical experts.
    Angelica Stabile, Fox News, 19 Nov. 2024
  • Swimmer’s ear can be pretty uncomfortable: your ear canal fills up with a sticky discharge and may become smelly and painful, explains Hildrew.
    Julia Ries, Outside Online, 14 Nov. 2024
Definition of discharge
Noun
  • But this close look at the events of the early 1930s suggests the U.S. is much better positioned than Germany was to avoid the slide into authoritarianism for one critical reason.
    Christine Adams / Made by History, TIME, 5 Nov. 2024
  • Khai was also featured sitting beside her mom on a rollercoaster before the third slide featured her hugging Mickey Mouse.
    Gabrielle Rockson, People.com, 5 Nov. 2024
Definition of slide
Noun
  • Most new titles from book publishers float into bookstores like flood tides in winter, summer and fall.
    Scott Burns, Dallas News, 20 July 2023
  • These enclaves, once the backbone of Ukraine’s agricultural eastern steppe, were reduced to ruin as the war passed over them like a flood tide.
    Natalia Yermak Mauricio Lima, New York Times, 14 July 2023
Definition of flood tide
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