engulph

engulph

English

Verb

engulph (third-person singular simple present engulphs, present participle engulphing, simple past and past participle engulphed)

1. Archaic form of engulf.
   • 1817, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick

     Yet even then beyond the reach of any plummet—'out of the belly of hell'—when the whale grounded upon the ocean's utmost bones, even then, God heard the engulphed, repenting prophet when he cried.

   • 1838, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Duty and Inclination, volume II, London: Henry Colburn, page 219:

     The uproar of the sea, the yell of the Indians, the rapidity with which the boat at intervals was driven, threatening at every moment to be engulphed, might have infused terror into the most undaunted; […]

   • 1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney: Ure Smith, published 1965, page 44:

     [C]louds of dark sorrow and sadness, Engulphing all pleasure and gladness, Entombing the soul.