disembogue
Americanverb (used without object)
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to discharge contents by pouring forth.
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to discharge water, as at the mouth of a stream.
a river that disembogues into the ocean.
verb (used with object)
verb
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(of a river, stream, etc) to discharge (water) at the mouth
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(intr) to flow out
Other Word Forms
- disemboguement noun
Etymology
Origin of disembogue
1585–95; earlier disemboque, disemboke < Spanish desembocar, equivalent to des- dis- 1 + embocar to enter by the mouth ( en- in (< Latin in- in- 2 ) + boc ( a ) mouth (< Latin bucca ) + -ar infinitive suffix)
Example Sentences
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Till slowly it disembogue itself, in the thickening dusk, into expectant Paris, through a double row of faces all the way from Passy to the Hotel-de-Ville.
From The French Revolution by Carlyle, Thomas
There is perhaps no better example of the Dutch power over water than the contrast between the present narrow canal through which the river must disembogue and the unprofitable marsh which once spread here.
From A Wanderer in Holland by Marshall, Herbert, R. W .S.
Taking its source at Allooli, the highest point of the Gollo range, this torrent strives to disembogue into the extremity of the lake, although its waters seldom arrive so far, save during the rainy season.
From The Highlands of Ethiopia by Harris, William Cornwallis
These two harbours furnish moreover, by the numerous streams and creeks that disembogue into them, most excellent means of communication with the interior.
The white men who reached the Eskimo land from the south were discoverers following to the sea the three great rivers that disembogue into the Polar Sea: the Mackenzie, Coppermine, Back or Great Fish.
From The New North by Cameron, Agnes Deans
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