engulf

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Yet in th' abyss, That Lucifer with Judas low ingulfs, I,ightly he plac'd us; nor there leaning stay'd, But rose as in a bark the stately mast.

From Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Complete by Cary, Henry Francis

War, a maelstrom which ingulfs uncounted millions, seems to have been the normal state of Germany.

From The Empire of Austria; Its Rise and Present Power by Abbott, John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot)

You will thus perceive that the connexion between the atoll and the volcano consists in this—that while the coral builds up the reef, the volcano beneath ingulfs the island and causes it to sink down.

From Wonders of Creation by Anonymous

Academies, public halls, and engine-houses keep their memory green, or will do so until the era of snobbery ingulfs the place, and pulls the old signs down.

From Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast by Drake, Samuel Adams

The greater part of my kin-folk and acquaintance, your own self, my critic, and your family and friends, will go down in the same darkness which ingulfs me.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 75, January, 1864 by Various