- a variation of engulf.
ingulf
Americanverb (used with object)
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The lack of the qualities which are indispensable to any one of these may, and probably will, prove an abyss deep enough to ingulf the largest commercial ship afloat.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 40, February, 1861 by Various
Its ramparts of stone, garnished with twenty cannon, scowled across the encroaching Mississippi, destined, before many years, to ingulf curtain and bastion in its ravenous abyss.
From The Conspiracy of Pontiac and the Indian War after the Conquest of Canada by Francis Parkman
Whirlpools turned her skiff round and round like a feather, and yawning gulfs threatened each moment to ingulf her.
From Captain Kyd, Vol. II or, The Wizard of the Sea by Jonathon Holt Ingraham
They are afraid to approach the rocks, lest the waters should rise in anger, and ingulf them.
From Life at Puget Sound: With Sketches of Travel in Washington Territory, British Columbia, Oregon and California by Caroline C. Leighton
You are now escaping from the whirlpool of war, which has threatened to absorb and ingulf the Republic.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 98, December, 1865 by Various
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