Definition of "ingulfs" []

• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of ingulf. (verb)

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• "Templar loses, as thou hast said, his social rights, his power of free agency, but he becomes a member and a limb of a mighty body, before which thrones already tremble, — even as the single drop of rain which mixes with the sea becomes an individual part of that resistless ocean, which undermines rocks and ingulfs royal armadas."
• "You will thus perceive that the connexion between the atoll and the volcano consists in this -- that while the coral builds up the reef, the volcano beneath ingulfs the island and causes it to sink down."
• "The greater part of my kin-folk and acquaintance, your own self, my critic, and your family and friends, will go down in the same darkness which ingulfs me."