ingulf
Americanverb (used with object)
verb
Other Word Forms
- ingulfment noun
Example Sentences
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This, at all events, is what Ingulf of Croyland used to tell us, until he was discovered to be a forgery.
From Literature
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Salmon and trout are found in the cool waters of the river that runs through Roros "People from other countries are very welcome to taste our food but we prefer them to do it here," says Ingulf Galaen, who runs a farm called Galavolden Gard.
From BBC
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 Project Gutenberg
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 Project Gutenberg
Engulf, en-gulf′, Ingulf, in-, v.t. to swallow up wholly, as in a gulf: to cast into a gulf: to overwhelm.—n.
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