ingulf
Americanverb (used with object)
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Little did she dream of the woes which in surging billows were to roll over her country, and which were to ingulf her, and all whom she loved, in their resistless tide.
From Madame Roland, Makers of History by Abbott, John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot)
On the next day the column resumed its march amid the steadily pouring rain, and moved through mud which threatened to ingulf every thing, toward the Louisville and Nashville railroad.
From History of Morgan's Cavalry by Duke, Basil Wilson
The sea is like a sea of death, ready to ingulf and never to reveal: a visible shadow of oblivion.
From Phantastes, a Faerie Romance for Men and Women by MacDonald, George
The land," in these convulsions, "was shaken by frightful earthquakes, and the waves of the sea combined with volcanic fires to overwhelm and ingulf it.
From Atlantis : the antediluvian world by Donnelly, Ignatius
Pascal, being thrown down on a bridge, fancied ever after that he was standing on the brink of a terrific precipice, which appeared to him an abyss ever ready to ingulf him.
From Curiosities of Medical Experience by Millingen, J. G. (John Gideon)
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