Definition of Engulfments

1. Noun. (plural of engulfment) ¹

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Definition of Engulfments

1. engulfment [n] - See also: engulfment

Lexicographical Neighbors of Engulfments

engrossest
engrosseth
engrossing
engrossingly
engrossment
engrossments
engs
enguard
enguarded
enguarding
enguards
engulf
engulfed
engulfing
engulfment
engulfments (current term)
engulfs
engulph
engulphed
engulphs
engyn
engyns
engyve
enhabit
enhabitant
enhabited
enhabiting
enhabits
enhalo
enhaloed

Literary usage of Engulfments

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Worker Deaths in Confined Spaces: A Summary of Surveillance Findings and edited by Thomas R. Bender (1996)
"engulfments in loose materials were the causes of death in about one-third of ... The remaining 10% of the deaths were drownings and engulfments in other ..."

2. Library of Southern Literature by Edwin Anderson Alderman, Joel Chandler Harris, Charles William Kent (1909)
"... Then swept away By swift engulfments of incalculable tides Whereon capricious Commerce rides. Look, thou substantial spirit of content! ..."

3. American Poetry by Percy Holmes Boynton, Howard Mumford Jones, George Wiley Sherburn, Frank Martindale Webster (1918)
"Enduring scarce a day, Then swept away By swift engulfments of incalculable tides MO_ Whereon capricious Commerce rides. Look, thou substantial spirit of ..."

4. American Poetry by Percy Holmes Boynton, Howard Mumford Jones, George Wiley Sherburn, Frank Martindale Webster (1918)
"... Then swept away By swift engulfments of incalculable tides "« Whereon capricious Commerce rides. Look, thou substantial spirit of content! ..."

5. The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art by David Ames Wells, George Bliss, Samuel Kneeland, John Trowbridge, Charles Robert Cross (1860)
"... which can only have been destroyed by sudden and more or less complete engulfments of immense areas of surface. The existence of intervening islands, ..."

6. The Glaciers of the Alps: Being a Narrative of Excursions and Ascents, an by John Tyndall (1861)
"In the upper portions of the Mer de Glace these moraines are distinct from each other; but in descending, the successive engulfments and ..."

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