re-engulfv.
/ˌriːᵻnˈɡʌlf/, /ˌriːɛnˈɡʌlf/, /ˌriːᵻŋˈɡʌlf/, /ˌriːɛŋˈɡʌlf/, U.S. /ˌriᵻnˈɡəlf/, /ˌriɛnˈɡəlf/, /ˌriᵻŋˈɡəlf/, /ˌriɛŋˈɡəlf/ transitive. To engulf again.
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the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > wrapping > wrap [verb (transitive)] > enfold or envelop > in a surrounding medium > swallow up > again
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1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Rengloutir, to reglut, reingulfe, swallow vp againe.
1648 N. Ward To Parl. at Westm. 24 Designes, which have..reingulfed us in so many new feares.
1845 Chambers's Edinb. Jrnl. 3 May 280/1 As fast as one step was brought to light, its next neighbour got re-engulfed.
1875 E. White Life in Christ (1878) i. i. 8 That this intellectual Eye..should then be reingulfed by the dead ruthless force which had given it birth.
1978 I. Majumdar Rural Migrants in Urban Setting iii. xviii. 123 A vicious circle of indebtedness from which they persistently strive to extricate themselves only to be re-engulfed because of the strong attachment to the village home.
2002 J. E. Hogle Cambr. Compan. Gothic Fiction i. 7 They both threaten to reengulf us and promise to return us to our primal origins.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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