disembogue
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Etymology[edit]
From Spanish desembocar, from des- + embocar (“run into a creek or strait”), from boca (“mouth”).
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disembogue (third-person singular simple present disembogues, present participle disemboguing, simple past and past participle disembogued)
- To come out into the open sea from a river etc.
- The ships disembogued from the harbour.
- 1612-1613, John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi, Act II, scene i, lines 36-38
- No, no, but you call careening of an old morphewed lady to make her disembogue again – there's roughcast phrase to your plastic.
- (of a river or waters) To pour out, to debouch; to flow out through a narrow opening into a larger space.
- 1828, Walter Hamilton, The East-India Gazetteer, 2nd ed., volume II, "Mooltan", page 240
- The river of Behut, near the pergunnah of Shoor, unites with the Chinaub, and then after running twenty-seven coss, they disembogue themselves into the river Sinde, near Ooch.
- 1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin 2006, p. 99:
- ‘Oh piffle, Durfeys – it flows to the westward and disembogues along the Pepper Coast.’
- 1828, Walter Hamilton, The East-India Gazetteer, 2nd ed., volume II, "Mooltan", page 240
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to come out into the open sea from a river
