Verb swallow up has 1 sense
  1. immerse, swallow, swallow up, bury, eat up - enclose or envelop completely, as if by swallowing; "The huge waves swallowed the small boat and it sank shortly thereafter"
    --1 is one way to enclose, inclose, shut in
    Sample sentences:
    Something ----s somebody
    Something ----s something
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