disembogue
to discharge contents by pouring forth.
to discharge water, as at the mouth of a stream: a river that disembogues into the ocean.
to discharge; cast forth.
Origin of disembogue
1Other words from disembogue
- dis·em·bogue·ment, noun
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How to use disembogue in a sentence
Some parts in earth are swallowed up; the most, In ample oceans disembogued, are lost.
Mosaics of Grecian History | Marcius WillsonA fine large creek, containing a chain of large water-holes went to the north-east, and disembogued probably into Bremer's Bay.
Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia | Ludwig LeichhardtThis place he presumed would be somewhere about the Straits of Annian, at which point he supposed the Oregon disembogued itself.
Astoria | Washington IrvingIt became a matter of curious speculation, what course this river pursued, and at what place it disembogued itself into the sea.
Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8 | Charles H. Sylvester
British Dictionary definitions for disembogue
/ (ˌdɪsɪmˈbəʊɡ) /
(of a river, stream, etc) to discharge (water) at the mouth
(intr) to flow out
Origin of disembogue
1Derived forms of disembogue
- disemboguement, noun
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