ingulf
Americanverb (used with object)
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He is more concerned regarding their escape from the threatening doom that seems ready to ingulf them.
From Miss Caprice by Rathborne, George, St.
His officers trembled at every step he took, for fear that some of the secret pits should ingulf him.
From The Scottish Chiefs by Porter, Jane
A howling chaos seemed about to ingulf her.
From Beulah by Evans, Augusta J. (Augusta Jane)
All these three had stood him in good stead, especially the last, which kept him wide-awake, and enabled him to sneeze a yellow hole in the drift, whenever it threatened to ingulf his beard.
From Mary Anerley : a Yorkshire Tale by Blackmore, R. D. (Richard Doddridge)
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
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