Definition of "ingulfed" [ingulfed]

• Simple past tense and past participle of ingulf. (verb)

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• "These people would not rest until the west in general, and the US in particular were ingulfed in endless wars agaainst tmost if not all Arab and Muslim people and countries."
• "Many a sheep had been there ingulfed, and never saluted by her lambs again; and although a lawyer by no means is a sheep (except in his clothing, and his eyes perhaps), yet his doings appear upon the skin thereof, and enhance its value more than drugs of Tyre."
• "As I have said, the bridge had no railing; and crowds of those who forced their way across fell into the river and were ingulfed beneath the ice."