swallowed up
Engulfed without trace
Swallowed up means completely consumed, absorbed, or engulfed—taken in so thoroughly that nothing remains visible or distinct.
A small company gets swallowed up by a larger one.
Fog swallowed up the coastline.
Expenses can swallow up a paycheck.
The image is of something disappearing entirely into a larger whole, like food down a throat.
- drownedDied by submersion
- devouredAte hungrily and completely
- gobbled upAte rapidly, completely
- envelopedFully enclosed around
- subsumedAbsorbed into larger category
submerged · buried · buried alive · annihilated · consumed · engulfed · eaten up · lost · lost in the shuffle · eclipsed · absorbed · obliterated · sunken · maw · encompassed · assimilated · engorgement · overwhelmed
swallowed upspat out
Forcibly ejected orally
expelled · disgorged · ejected · regurgitated · released
swallowed upemerged
Came into view
surfaced · appeared · came into view · revealed · uncovered
swallowed upextracted
Removed from source
liberated · disentangled · extricated · split off · detached