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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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
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
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 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.
As affairs now appeared to grow serious, the Noah’s Ark disembogued the whole of its living contents, and a minute inspection of the stables was commenced by the whole party.
From Tales from Blackwood, Volume 7 by Willis, Herbert
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 Irving, Washington
It became a matter of curious speculation, what course this river pursued, and at what place it disembogued itself into the sea.
From Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8 by Sylvester, Charles Herbert
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 De la Mare, Walter
Some part in earth are swallowed up; the most In ample oceans disembogued, are lost: He shades the woods, the valleys he restrains With rocky mountains, and extends the plains.
From Heathen Mythology by Various
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 Craik, Dinah Maria Mulock
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
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 Roby, John
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 Japp, Alexander H. (Alexander Hay)
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