The Collaborative International Dictionary
Engulfment \En*gulf"ment\, n. A swallowing up as if in a gulf. [R.]
Wiktionary
n. The act of engulfing
Usage examples of "engulfment".
The bat had been identified as an innocent victim of appearances, a very mild-mannered beast dedicated to the pursuit and engulfment of huge mothlike bugs which hung around watercourses.
Dolores describes these persons as afraid of obliteration, emotional engulfment.
So we sit and stare at Frater Antony’s little jade skull-pendant, and we’re told to perform various metaphorical absorptions and engulfments having to do with the relation of death to life, but what they really want us to do is learn how to focus all our mental energy on a single object.
It's an intense circulation of alien pains and pleasures, of unknown powers and vulnerabilities, of surprising engulfments and disgorgements.
The electric illumination, the engulfments of dark wash and sounding black fell down, shutting in, forever.