Engulf

The flood waters are predicted to engulf the town.

Learning their religion will just engulf you in poverty.

May deep sleep engulf you, so that you rest from insomnia!

One must not deny one's brother, even if he wants to engulf you.

The general public has been plunged into darkness and chaos as shortages of electricity, food, and transportation services engulf the country.

Better performance by electoral and security authorities notwithstanding, fears remain that disagreements on the result might engulf the country into a destabilizing fight for power.

Depression engulfed her after her daughter's death.

Shaken by the biggest challenge to their authority in years, Brazil’s leaders made conciliatory gestures on Tuesday to try to defuse the protests engulfing the nation’s cities.

The blank spaces of Mallarmé, the silence of Maesterlinck, the inaniloquous repetitive babblings of Gertrude Stein are the abyss which threatens to engulf creative effort if it continues in this direction.

Only Noah and his family survived when the Flood engulfed the world.