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
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)
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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 William Rounseville Alger
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 William Cornwallis Harris
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 Thomas Herbert Darlow
The river Paraná forms a great artery between Brazil and Paraguay; upon each side of it a network of rivers disembogue.
From A Vanished Arcadia: being some account of the Jesuits in Paraguay 1607-1767 by R. B. (Robert Bontine) Cunninghame Graham
These two harbours furnish moreover, by the numerous streams and creeks that disembogue into them, most excellent means of communication with the interior.
Towards three o'clock in the morning, the brig, leaving Rathlin Island on her starboard side, disembogued by the Northern Channel into the ocean.
From The English at the North Pole Part I of the Adventures of Captain Hatteras by Jules Verne
The creek disembogued in a nearly landlocked bay, whose comparatively still waters were passed, and the boat began to be tossed by the waves of the broad bay.
From Brave Old Salt or, Life on the Quarter Deck by Oliver Optic
A fine large creek, containing a chain of large water-holes went to the north-east, and disembogued probably into Bremer's Bay.
From Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia : from Moreton Bay to Port Essington, a distance of upwards of 3000 miles, during the years 1844-1845 by Ludwig Leichhardt
This place he presumed would be somewhere about the Straits of Annian, at which point he supposed the Oregon disembogued itself.
From Astoria, or, anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains by Washington Irving
Here my bright river disembogued in noise and foam.
From Henry Brocken His Travels and Adventures in the Rich, Strange, Scarce-Imaginable Regions of Romance by Walter De la Mare
The same Coltham coach stopped at the Lamb Inn, and the same group of idle loungers took an interest in its disemboguing of its contents.
From John Halifax, Gentleman by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
As these must make angles to each other, in order to form different roads, the land towards the disemboguing of the river will take the arrangement of a triangle.
From The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 2 by Alexander H. (Alexander Hay) Japp
Will looked again towards the flagon; but great was his dismay on beholding it in the very act of disemboguing its precious contents into another gulf as insatiable as his own.
From Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 by John Roby
For upon their entering upon that sea, they violently press upon it, and so cause the flow; but they disemboguing themselves, there is a cessation of the impetuousness, by which means the ebb is produced.
From Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies by Plutarch
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