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[en-guhlf] / ɛnˈgʌlf /


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In one six-year period, he brought 80 firms into what became jokingly known as "Engulf and Devour."

From Time Magazine Archive

And I have mused:—E'en thus may Freedom fall, And darkness shroud it like a wintry pall, And night o'erwhelm it, and the shades thereof Engulf the glories born of perfect love.

From Love Letters of a Violinist and Other Poems by Mackay, Eric

And in destruction's river Engulf and swallow those.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Webster, Noah

Engulf, en-gulf′, Ingulf, in-, v.t. to swallow up wholly, as in a gulf: to cast into a gulf: to overwhelm.—n.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various




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