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• a variation of engulf.

ingulf

American  

[in-guhlf] / ɪnˈgʌlf /

verb (used with object)

1. a variant of engulf.

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ingulf British  

/ ɪnˈɡʌlf /

verb

1. a variant spelling of engulf

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Other Word Forms

• ingulfment
  noun

Example Sentences

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ingulf

White-crested billows came roaring and tumbling in, seeming as if ready to ingulf us.

From Scenes in the Hawaiian Islands and California by Mary E. (Mary Evarts) Anderson

O terrible condition! that black and boundless sea resembles the eternal night which will ingulf us!

From Perils and Captivity Comprising The sufferings of the Picard family after the shipwreck of the Medusa, in the year 1816; Narrative of the captivity of M. de Brisson, in the year 1785; Voyage of Madame Godin along the river of the Amazons, in the year 1770. by Patrick Maxwell

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

Shame were it, Grecians! should we seek by flight500 Our galleys now; yawn earth our feet beneath And here ingulf us rather!

From The Iliad of Homer Translated into English Blank Verse by William Cowper by William Cowper

While rapidly descending, the cordage of the balloon became entangled in the branches of a tree, and she found herself suspended over a vast green marsh, whose treacherous mud would infallibly ingulf her.

From The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 1, August, 1851 by Various