engulfedadj.
/ɛnˈɡʌlft/ In senses of the verb.
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the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > [adjective] > devouring > devoured
consumpta1398
forfrettenc1420
spentc1440
consumed1580
engulfed1590
exhausted1656
1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene iii. ii. sig. Dd3 Like an huge Aetn' of deepe engulfed gryefe, Sorrow is heaped in thy hollow chest.
a1610 J. Healey tr. Cebes' Table in tr. Epictetus Manuall (1636) 135 Her owne receipt..purgeth out all their ingulphed evils, as by vomit.
1728 J. Thomson Spring 2 The Bittern knows his Time, with Bill ingulpht To shake the sounding Marsh.
1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps ii. §8 267 We should find the engulfed rocks in the body of the glacier.
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