disembogue

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
16
Words With Friends
20
Letters
10
Pronunciation
/ˌdɪs.ɪmˈbəʊɡ/ (UK)
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/ˌdɪs.ɪmˈbəʊɡ/ (UK) · /ˌdɪs.ɪmˈboʊɡ/ (US)

Definition of disembogue

2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

verb

  1. To come out into the open sea from a river etc.
    “The ships disembogued from the harbour.”
    “No, no, but you call careening of an old morphewed lady to make her disembogue again – there's roughcast phrase to your plastic.”
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verb

  1. To come out into the open sea from a river etc.
    “The ships disembogued from the harbour.”
    “No, no, but you call careening of an old morphewed lady to make her disembogue again – there's roughcast phrase to your plastic.”
  2. To pour out, to debouch; to flow out through a narrow opening into a larger space.
    “You yeoman phevvterer, conduct mee to / The Lady of the manſion, or my poniard / Shall diſemboge thy ſoule.”
    “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.”
    “Keängsoo is easy of approach : but though the two largest rivers of China, the Yellow river, and the Yangtsze keäng, both disembogue themselves into the sea within its confines, yet it possesses but one good port, which is Shanghae heën, near the frontiers of Chekeäng.”
    “‘Oh piffle, Durfeys – it flows to the westward and disembogues along the Pepper Coast.’”

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Etymology

From Spanish desembocar, from des- + embocar (“run into a creek or strait”), from boca (“mouth”).

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