threatened to engulf• The realisation left him with a feeling of anguish so great that it threatened to engulf him.• And I lay where I fell, fighting to hold back the tears which threatened to engulf me.
engulfed in flames• CoastGuardboatsarrived to find the boat engulfed in flames.• The family had tickets for a section of the planeengulfed in flames.• They reached safety seconds before the cafe was engulfed in flames.• And the ambulance was engulfed in flames before firemencaught up with it.• Two of the men were killed instantly, the third was engulfed in flames before he died an agonising death.