swallow up

Verb

Meaning

enclose or envelop completely, as if by swallowing

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I cannot guess what may be the fate of Quakerism in America; but I perceive it loses ground daily in England. In all countries, where the established religion is of a mild and tolerating nature, it will at length swallow up all the rest. Voltaire

All arguments on the hardship of a case, either on one side or the other, must be rejected, when we are pronouncing what the law is; for such arguments are only quicksands in the law, and, if indulged, will soon swallow up every principle of it. Sir Francis Buller, 1st Baronet

Virtue is indeed its own noblest reward; yet the dead find it sweet, when the fame of their lives is remembered among the living and oblivion does not swallow up their praises. Silius Italicus

In all countries, where the established religion is of a mild and tolerating nature, it will at length swallow up all the rest. Voltaire

While television is a good servant, it's a bad master. It can swallow up huge quantities of our lives without much happiness bang for the buck. Gretchen Rubin

He rode as rides the hurricane; He seem'd to swallow up the plain. Joaquin Miller

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