ingulf
Americanverb (used with object)
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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
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
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
There to his left they stand crowning the height, foot and horse ready to ingulf him, if he shall be rash enough to go on.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 52, February, 1862 by Various
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
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