engouffrer

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French

Etymology

Derived from en- +‎ gouffre +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɑ̃.ɡu.fʁe/
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Verb

engouffrer

  1. (transitive) to engulf, swallow up
    • 1873, Jules Verne, chapter 30, in Le Tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours [Around the World in Eighty Days], Paris: J. Hetzel et Compagnie:
      Des pelletées de charbon et de bois furent engouffrées dans le foyer de sa chaudière, le feu se ranima, la pression monta de nouveau, et, vers deux heures après midi, la machine revenait en arrière vers la station de Kearney.
      Shovelsfull of coal and wood were engulfed in the hearth of the boiler, the fire revived, pressure increased anew, and, at about two o'clock in the afternoon, the machine returned, backwards, to Fort Kearney.
  2. (transitive) to gobble up; to eat up
  3. (pronominal) to rush, dive into
    Synonym: précipiter
    • 1918, Marcel Proust, À l’ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs [In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower] (À la recherche du temps perdu)‎:
      Et tous les quatre qui trouvaient que le phénomène international du Palace, implanté à Balbec, y avait fait fleurir le luxe plus que la bonne cuisine, s’engouffraient dans une voiture, []
      And then all four, because they found that the international phenomenon of the 'Palace,' planted on Balbec soil, had blossomed there in material splendour rather than in food that was fit to eat, bundled into a carriage

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