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
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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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These two harbours furnish moreover, by the numerous streams and creeks that disembogue into them, most excellent means of communication with the interior.
There is a place in Madrid called the Puerta del Sol, which is a central spot, surrounded with shops, into which the four principal streets disembogue, if I may be allowed the expression.
From Letters of George Borrow to the British and Foreign Bible Society by Darlow, Thomas Herbert
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
The rivers of emancipated men neither disembogue into the ocean of spirit nor evaporate into the abyss of nonentity, but are blended with infinitude as an ontological integer.
From The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life by Alger, William Rounseville
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
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