engulf

Other schools have been shuttered because of attacks and threats stemming from the war that continues to engulf the country.

Suddenly, the screen cuts to FLAMES which engulf the word "COWARDS?!?"

Using ethnicity for political ends is a dangerous game that will engulf South Sudan if not contained.

The scale of devastation is now threatening to engulf the amount of resources deployed to control the situation.

This timing may have been a mercy, given the fate that was about to engulf Yugoslavia.

It must be creeping around the eastern edge, and would soon engulf us.

If her burning fire could but be poured out upon him, and engulf the artist in her destroying waves.

We would then be sleeping on a volcano, such as may at any hour engulf the empire of Russia.

I decided to wait until she was quite close and then to engulf her with the full force of the male principle.

Vines threatened to engulf the circling street of sepulchers in greenery and bloom, and grass to encroach on the flower plots.