ingulf
Americanverb (used with object)
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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 Francis Parkman
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 Frank Richard Stockton
The land," in these convulsions, "was shaken by frightful earthquakes, and the waves of the sea combined with volcanic fires to overwhelm and ingulf it.
From Atlantis : the antediluvian world by Ignatius Donnelly
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 Walt Louderback
On the next day the column resumed its march amid the steadily pouring rain, and moved through mud which threatened to ingulf every thing, toward the Louisville and Nashville railroad.
From History of Morgan's Cavalry by Basil Wilson Duke
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