ingulf
Americanverb (used with object)
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A howling chaos seemed about to ingulf her.
From Beulah by Evans, Augusta J. (Augusta Jane)
Was she strong enough to stem the tide of worldliness that would ingulf them?
From Cloudy Jewel by Hill, Grace Livingston
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 Parkman, Francis
The bottomless extravagance and the unknown liabilities of the wife had long since swallowed her own fortune, and threatened day by day to ingulf that of the husband.
From The Boy Scouts Book of Stories by Louderback, Walt
When fever consumed her she was in the foundry, the lava torrent of metal from the furnace mouth creeping nearer and nearer, threatening to ingulf her.
From Stories by American Authors, Volume 7 by Various
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