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Engulfment

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en·gulf  (n-glf)
tr.v. en·gulfed, en·gulf·ing, en·gulfs
To swallow up or overwhelm by or as if by overflowing and enclosing: The spring tide engulfed the beach houses.

en·gulfment n.


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MOFA's policy-making influence has been debilitated by its engulfment in financial scandals since 2001; the damaging appointment of Tanaka Makiko from April 2001 to January 2002 that left the ministry adrift from political influence; and the resultant loss of senior personnel.
However, the influence of particle size on their engulfment was not clarified in these publications.
Ferguson decision, handed down only a year before Harper's novel was published, institutionalized segregation in the South based on white "fears of engulfment and contamination" by "scandalously proximate [black] bodies" (206).
 
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