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engulf, ingulf, v.|ɛnˈgʌlf|
Also 6–9 en-, ingulph.
[f. en-1 + gulf; cf. Fr. engouffrer, earlier engoulfer (which may be the source).]
1. trans. To swallow up in a gulf, abyss, or whirlpool; to plunge into a gulf; to plunge deeply and inextricably into a surrounding medium. Also refl. and intr. for refl.
α1555Eden Decades W. Ind. (Arb.) 261 They were engulfed by chance in the great sea. 1580Sidney Ps. clxii. (R.) In destruction's river Engulph and swallow those Whose hate, etc. 1600Fairfax Tasso xv. xxiv. 271 Now deepe engulphed in the mightie flood They saw not Gades. 1796Morse Amer. Geog. II. 425 A city..having formerly been engulphed by an earthquake. 1831Carlyle in Froude Life i. (1882) II. 151 Not upon the quicksand, where resting will but engulph you deeper. 1869Freeman Norm. Conq. (1876) III. xii. 235 In that dangerous passage the careless traveller might easily be engulfed.
βc1630Drummond of Hawthornden Poems Wks. 34/1 Her [Earth's] surface shakes..Towns them ingulf..Now nought remaineth but a Waste of Sand. a1711Ken Poet. Wks. (1721) IV. 29 They expire, Ingulfing in infernal Fire. 1735Somerville Chase iii. 135 Another in the treach'rous Bog Lies flound'ring, half ingulph'd. 1816Shelley Alastor 365 A cavern there..Ingulphed the rushing sea. 1855H. Reed Lect. Eng. Lit. x. 323 Shelley was overtaken by a Mediterranean thunder-storm, and ingulfed in the deep waters.
b. refl. and pass. Of a river: To discharge itself into, be lost in, the sea; also, to disappear underground.
1634Sir T. Herbert Trav. 43 Made by the River Indus which their ingulfes herselfe into the Indian Seas. 1667Milton P.L. iv. 225 A River..through the shaggie hill Pass'd underneath ingulft. 1772Mason Eng. Garden ii. (R.), That hallow'd spring; thence, in the porous earth Long while ingulph'd. 1821Brydges Lett. Continent 12 [The Rhone] makes itself a passage among the rocks at the extremity of Mount Jura, ingulphs itself for some time, etc.
2. transf. (chiefly humorous). To swallow up like an abyss; to bury completely.
1829Gen. P. Thompson Exerc. (1842) I. 124 The autumnal glutton who engulphs their [oysters'] gentle substances within his own. 1863Fr. Kemble Resid. Georgia 58 Shirt gills which absolutely ingulfed his black visage. 1879Cassell's Techn. Educ. I. 182/2 To procure these insignificant morsels, he engulfs a whole shoal of them at once in his capacious jaws.
3. fig.
α1603Hayward Answ. Doleman viii. (T.) Upon every giddy and brainless warrant to engulph ourselves. 1669Woodhead St. Teresa ii. 264 That holy Soul went wholly immersed and engulfed in God. 1877Mozley Univ. Serm. iii. 62 The power which mere sensual pleasure has of engulphing us in the vulgar sensation of life.
β1597Morley Introd. Mus. Pref., To leaue that unbrought to an end, in the which I was so farre ingulfed. 1647Ward Simp. Cobler 57 Into what importable head-tearings and heart-searchings you will be ingulfed. 1784Cowper Task iii. 816 London ingulphs them all. The shark is there And the shark's prey. 1864Lowell Fireside Trav. 126 O Death, thou ever roaming shark, Ingulf me in eternal dark!
† II. 4. To cut into gulfs or bays. Obs. rare.
1632Lithgow Trav. x. 496 Because of the Sea ingulfing the Land, and cutting it in so many Angles. |