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Verb: swallow up
  1. Enclose or envelop completely, as if by swallowing
    "The huge waves swallowed up the small boat and it sank shortly thereafter"
    - immerse, swallow, bury, eat up

Derived forms: swallowing up, swallowed up, swallows up

Type of: close in, enclose, inclose, shut in

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