ingulf
Americanverb (used with object)
verb
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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
It is for you to gather up all these scattered bones, and close this chasm that opens to ingulf us.
From The Jesuits in North America in the Seventeenth Century by Parkman, Francis
Water should wet the foot, should ingulf him who would tread its surface.
From Miracles of Our Lord by MacDonald, George
It was almost possible to imagine one's self surrounded by limpid waters, which might at any moment rush upon him and ingulf him.
From My Terminal Moraine 1892 by Stockton, Frank Richard
She could not see the mountain; a heavy bank of white fog lay against it, resting, after its long flight over the ocean, before it returned, or swept onward to ingulf the redwoods.
From The Splendid Idle Forties Stories of Old California by Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn
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