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Definition of Engulfing
1. engulf [v] - See also: engulf
Lexicographical Neighbors of Engulfing
Literary usage of Engulfing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Rise of the Dutch Republic: A History by John Lothrop Motley (1879)
"The stormy Zuyder Zee began its existence by engulfing thousands of Frisian
villages, with all their population, and by spreading a chasm between kindred ..."
2. Pathogenic Microörganisms: A Practical Manual for Students, Physicians, and by William Hallock Park, Anna Wessels Williams, Charles Krumwiede (1917)
"The cells help in two general ways: First, by engulfing the germs and so disposing
of them, thus acting as phagocytes; and second, after being acted upon by ..."
3. Studies in Immunity by Jules Bordet (1909)
"These organisms after 2 or 3 hours give rise to new individuals also surrounded
by an areola, similarly able to avoid engulfing, and usually occurring in ..."
4. The Loyalists of America and Their Times: From 1620 to 1816 by Egerton Ryerson (1880)
"... the ocean breaks, and settles with engulfing floods over the floating deck,
and beats with deadening, shivering weight against the staggering vessel. ..."
5. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1899)
"Most often it finally appeared to be a huge soft pillow or even formless feather
bed, but without color or other qualities save that of engulfing and ..."
6. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1899)
"This nightmare always took the form of a great wave of some- tiling gradually
rolling towards me and finally engulfing and oppressing me to a painful extent ..."
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