engulfment

There was not even a splash, just a silent engulfment.

And then he grinned until the very lake seemed to be in danger of engulfment.

Role engulfment can also occur in a more mainstream context.

Now it was black; the clouds had completed their engulfment of the moon.

Full engulfment capabilities of the suit make for a good emergency combatant.

She had held on, too, then, grappling among the grass and gravel for any small hold against the engulfment of the past.

The result is sonic engulfment, virtually bathing the listener in the music.

This particular image portrays the engulfment of the plantations by the Europeans.

In these days of corporate engulfment, most familiar names and faces are going out of fashion.

"And then I completed the engulfment and cleaned up the carpet.

Anal phobia perhaps, or fear of sexual engulfment, maybe even castration itself.

An established function of macrophages is the engulfment of cellular debris.

It is what is now called an engulfment, subsuming the original footprint with something much bigger.

The father presents autonomy to the child and thus protects the child from engulfment by the mother, which could lead to ego loss.

Engulfment of material is facilitated by the actin-myosin contractile system.

A case of recent engulfment?

Fittingly, engulfment is the picture's subject.

Primary endosymbiosis involves the engulfment of a bacterium by another free living organism.

These structures can protect cells from engulfment by eukaryotic cells, such as macrophages.

The hazards are now better understood and storage spheres are protected from fire engulfment by better design.

Upon recognition, the phagocyte reorganizes its cytoskeleton for engulfment of the cell.

It made me timid, showing me an image of death as motion-all-gone, followed usually by engulfment in some hungry mouth, or decay.

Protein A helps inhibit phagocytic engulfment and acts as an immunological disguise.

In labeling theory, role engulfment refers to how a person's identity becomes based on a role the person assumes, superseding other roles.