Ingulfed

Word INGULFED
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Definitions and meanings of "Ingulfed"

What do we mean by ingulfed?

To overwhelm.

To surround; to cover.

To cast into a gulf.

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The word "ingulfed" in example sentences

These people would not rest until the west in general, and the US in particular were ingulfed in endless wars agaainst tmost if not all Arab and Muslim people and countries. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Many a sheep had been there ingulfed, and never saluted by her lambs again; and although a lawyer by no means is a sheep (except in his clothing, and his eyes perhaps), yet his doings appear upon the skin thereof, and enhance its value more than drugs of Tyre. ❋ Richard Doddridge (2004)

It seems that the rain had been even more violent at _his_ end of the lake, having been magnified into a squall upon the water, and a tornado upon land, blowing down trees, and breaking away the lattice-work of the hotel piazza; consequently he supposed our boat must have been ingulfed, and had come to look for the corpses. ❋ Cecilia Pauline Cleveland (N/A)

These blocks came to the very edge of the raft, where, finding an obstacle, they remained stationary for some time, then were suddenly ingulfed under these frail planks with a terrible shock, though the soldiers stopped the largest with their bayonets, and turned their course aside from the rafts. ❋ Various (N/A)

In our anguish and terror, we felt that the whole nation would be speedily ingulfed in one common ruin. ❋ William Horatio Barnes (N/A)

The skull bounded across the beach till it reached the very margin of the stream: -- one instant more and it would be ingulfed for ever. ❋ Various (N/A)

Besides that part of the mountain which thus fell in, a large extent of ground in its neighbourhood was ingulfed. ❋ Anonymous (N/A)

Starting up in the boat, and extending his arms toward the disappearing vessel, he unwittingly lost his balance, and was in a moment ingulfed in the stormy billows. ❋ Various (N/A)

Jorullo; but the catastrophe seems to have ended like the last great eruption of the volcano in Timor -- the whole of the plain having been ingulfed and replaced by the salt lake, whose depressed level so clearly indicates the nature of its origin. ❋ Anonymous (N/A)

His failure soon followed, and ingulfed the little fortune of his ward; and, as the hereditary plate of the thrifty householders was sold along with the bankrupt's effects, if he had ever felt the pride of being born with a silver spoon in his mouth, the poor scholar must have felt some pathos in seeing both spoon and tankard in the broker's inventory. ❋ Various (N/A)

It would have been perhaps more easy to believe in the saint's agency in the matter had there been less wind; for in addition to the danger of being ingulfed by the heavy sea, their clothing, which they spread to collect the rain, was so deluged with salt spray as to make the water exceedingly brackish. ❋ Various (N/A)

Our boat sometimes greatly elevated, and sometimes ingulfed between the waves, seemed, at the moment, of utter ruin. ❋ Pierre Raymond De Brisson (N/A)

By this dreadful occurrence forty villages were destroyed, some ingulfed with the ground on which they stood, others buried under the loose materials which had been ejected. ❋ Anonymous (N/A)

The clergyman imagined the millions who should rise, on this momentous occasion, from the recesses of the vast ocean, and as he pictured the probable characters of many who should then come forth to judgment, and their unfitness to stand before that holy tribunal, Jack felt as if he were describing some of his own friends whom he had seen ingulfed by the waters. ❋ Louisa C. Tuthill (N/A)

Then finding no longer any refuge from inevitable captivity, except in the waters of the Elster, the brave prince had thrown himself into it without considering the impassable steepness of the opposite bank, and in a few moments he with his horse was ingulfed beneath the waves. ❋ Various (N/A)

Some again doubted we were ingulfed in the Bay of St. Lawrence, the coast full of dangers, and unto us unknown. ❋ Edward Hayes (N/A)

Even walls and roofs of houses are seen, or guessed at, ingulfed formerly by the sea; and the tale of that disaster, as told us by the fisherman, is doubtless known to mariners, who, fearing Apollo, dare not land upon this island. ❋ Various (N/A)

As I have said, the bridge had no railing; and crowds of those who forced their way across fell into the river and were ingulfed beneath the ice. ❋ Various (N/A)

The ground, with the town upon it, is said to have been ingulfed during a volcanic convulsion, when the lake was formed in its place. ❋ Anonymous (N/A)

It was while flying in terror, that the dense, yet disorderly crowds sought to escape over some ponds, the ice of which broke, and two thousand of them were ingulfed. ❋ Various (N/A)

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