engulfmentn.
/ɛnˈɡʌlfmənt/ The action of engulfing; the process of being engulfed. Also figurative.
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the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > wrapping > [noun] > enfolding or enveloping > in a surrounding medium
absorption1597
engulfing1658
engulfment1832
1832 T. Carlyle in Fraser's Mag. 5 399 What shape soever, bloody or bloodless, the descent and engulfment assume.
1834 C. Lyell Princ. Geol. (ed. 3) II. ii. v. 159 The higher parts of it were afterwards destroyed and..a falling in, or engulphment, of large masses may have taken place.
1856 T. De Quincey Confessions Eng. Opium-eater (rev. ed.) in Select. Grave & Gay V. 69 And the most frightful abysses, up to the very last menace of engulfment.
1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps ii. §26. 367 The successive engulfments and disgorgings of the blocks..have broken up the moraines.
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