engloutir — meaning in English
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English meaning
- engulf verb To completely surround or cover something, often suddenly and overwhelmingly.
- gobble verb To eat quickly and greedily.
- guzzle verb To drink or eat something quickly and greedily.
- scoff verb To speak about something with scorn or mockery, treating it as ridiculous.
- wolf noun A large wild canine, Canis lupus, that lives and hunts in packs.
Senses
engloutir is used for these senses in English:
- engulf (transitive) To surround; to cover; to submerge.
- gobble To eat hastily or greedily; to scoff or scarf (often used with up)
- guzzle To drink or eat quickly, voraciously, or to excess; to gulp down; to swallow greedily, continually, or with gusto.
- phagocytize (immunology, cytology, US) To ingest (something) by phagocytosis.
- scoff (British, Newfoundland, slang) To eat food quickly.
- swallow up To completely enclose or envelop.
- wolf (transitive) To devour; to gobble; to eat (something) voraciously.
gobble — full definition
- verb To eat quickly and greedily.
- verb Of a turkey, to make its distinctive throaty call.