ingulf
Americanverb (used with object)
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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
The sea is like a sea of death, ready to ingulf and never to reveal: a visible shadow of oblivion.
From Phantastes, a Faerie Romance for Men and Women by George MacDonald
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
Water should wet the foot, should ingulf him who would tread its surface.
From Miracles of Our Lord by George MacDonald
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
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