Verb (used with object) : The overflowing river has engulfed many small towns along its banks. ,He engulfed himself in his studies. From Dictionary.com.
Now it was black; the clouds had completed their engulfment of the moon. From Wordnik.com. [A Spell For Chameleon]
"I had thought" — intervenes to break her engulfment in terror and get the story going. From Wordnik.com. [Attached to Reading: Mary Shelley's Psychical Reality] Reference
She had valiantly steered Anne through the breakers that more than once had threatened engulfment. From Wordnik.com. [Grace Harlowe's Golden Summer] Reference
At best, we can delay the irretrievably close approach and the subsequent engulfment by two orbits. From Wordnik.com. [Starfarers]
No longer is there a fantasy of omnipotent control of mother or merger, union, or engulfment by mother. From Wordnik.com. [Clinical Work with Adolescents] Reference
She had held on, too, then, grappling among the grass and gravel for any small hold against the engulfment of the past. From Wordnik.com. [Dragonfly in Amber]
This engulfment is the sepulchre which assumes a tide, and which mounts from the depths of the earth towards a living man. From Wordnik.com. [Les Miserables] Reference
The rivers were currented with dust which flooded across the land when the wind bade it reenact an old tale of engulfment. From Wordnik.com. [“Death-Wish,” a 1950 short story written by Ray Bradbury] Reference
In some textbooks the Lamarckian acquisition of a double membrane of mitochondria is even presented as evidence for engulfment. From Wordnik.com. [A critique on the endosymbiotic theory for the origin of mitochondria] Reference
There must be craters of engulfment, and of explosion. From Wordnik.com. [More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2] Reference
The receptor initiating the engulfment of cell corpses in. From Wordnik.com. [PLoS Biology: New Articles] Reference
(Frizzled) thus can function as an engulfment receptor in. From Wordnik.com. [PLoS Biology: New Articles] Reference
R (2004) The engulfment process of programmed cell death in. From Wordnik.com. [PLoS Biology: New Articles] Reference
The last engulfment occurred 58 min after the cell was born. From Wordnik.com. [PLoS Biology: New Articles] Reference
The Wnt pathway affects engulfment of cell corpses in the gonad. From Wordnik.com. [PLoS Biology: New Articles] Reference
This cess-pool offered its engulfment to the city and the universe. From Wordnik.com. [Les Misérables] Reference
Expression of MOM-5 during engulfment of cell corpses in the embryo. From Wordnik.com. [PLoS Biology: New Articles] Reference
The figure shows the kinetics of the engulfment of corpses in the gonad. From Wordnik.com. [PLoS Biology: New Articles] Reference
We also analysed for 31 additional corpses the time between death and engulfment. From Wordnik.com. [PLoS Biology: New Articles] Reference
O (1998) Candidate adaptor protein CED-6 promotes the engulfment of apoptotic cells in. From Wordnik.com. [PLoS Biology: New Articles] Reference
And for this immense engulfment, this supreme victory of life over death, what was needed?. From Wordnik.com. [Napoleon the Little] Reference
R (1991) Genes required for the engulfment of cell corpses during programmed cell death in. From Wordnik.com. [PLoS Biology: New Articles] Reference
We found that a similar, but distinct pathway likely acts in engulfment and DTC migration. From Wordnik.com. [PLoS Biology: New Articles] Reference
LIT-1/NLK, or POP-1/TCF did not result in any significant engulfment or DTC migration defect. From Wordnik.com. [PLoS Biology: New Articles] Reference
It was like their abandoning him upon the sandspit, to the threatening engulfment of the tide. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Slaves] Reference
The Wnt pathway affects spindle orientation, engulfment of cell corpses, and gonadal migration. From Wordnik.com. [PLoS Biology: New Articles] Reference
This engulfment is the sepulchre which assumes a tide, and which mounts from the depths of the earth towards. From Wordnik.com. [Les Misérables] Reference
To get reliable data for the engulfment of cell death in the gonad, we used in addition to the classical procedure. From Wordnik.com. [PLoS Biology: New Articles] Reference
Street stood, for her, as the ark; those who remained outside, at the call of the bell, were in danger of engulfment. From Wordnik.com. [Fran] Reference
Beyond, the opaqueness was massive; to penetrate thither seemed horrible, an entrance into it appeared like an engulfment. From Wordnik.com. [Les Misérables] Reference
Microscopic analyses demonstrated the engulfment and replication of mycobacteria into vacuoles of A. polyphaga trophozoites. From Wordnik.com. [BioMed Central - Latest articles] Reference
Should he impose his galleys on those two dazzling children, or should he consummate his irremediable engulfment by himself?. From Wordnik.com. [Les Misérables] Reference
There seemed but one way open to their salvation, but one course by which they could escape from the engulfment that threatened. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Slaves] Reference
Continually under them the footing shifted; sullen logs menaced them with crushing or complete engulfment in their grinding mill. From Wordnik.com. [The Rules of the Game] Reference
Standing or moving water may have weakened structural members or moved materials creating a potential collapse or engulfment hazard. From Wordnik.com. [Digital50.com Digital 50 Daily Industry News RSS Feed] Reference
My goal is to have it explode category by its breadth, not because of some opposition to the genre methods but by its engulfment of them. From Wordnik.com. [Locus Online News] Reference
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