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engulfment|ɛnˈgʌlfmənt|
[f. as prec. + -ment.]
The action of engulfing; the process of being engulfed. Also fig.
1822De Quincey Confess. Wks. V. 69 And the most frightful abysses, up to the very last menace of engulfment. 1833Lyell Princ. Geol. (1875) II. ii. xxvi. 3 The cone [of Etna]..has more than once been destroyed either by explosion or engulphment. 1832Carlyle in Fraser's Mag. V. 399 What shape soever, bloody or bloodless, the descent and engulfment assume. 1860Tyndall Glac. ii. §26. 367 The successive engulfments and disgorgings of the blocks..have broken up the moraines. |