[f. as prec. + -MENT.] The action of engulfing; the process of being engulfed. Also fig.
1822. De Quincey, Confess., Wks. V. 69. And the most frightful abysses, up to the very last menace of engulfment.
1833. Lyell, Princ. Geol. (1875), II. II. xxvi. 3. The cone [of Etna] … has more than once been destroyed either by explosion or engulphment.
1832. Carlyle, in Fraser’s Mag., V. 399. What shape soever, bloody or bloodless, the descent and engulfment assume.
1860. Tyndall, Glac., II. § 26. 367. The successive engulfments and disgorgings of the blocks and dirt have broken up the moraines.
