Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To flow out or empty, as water from a channel.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To pour out or discharge at the mouth, as a stream; hence, to vent; cast forth or eject.
- To flow out, as at the mouth; become discharged; gain a vent: as, innumerable rivers disembogue into the ocean.
- Nautical, to pass across, or out of the mouth of, a river, gulf, or bay, as a ship.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To pour out or discharge at the mouth, as a stream; to vent; to discharge into an ocean, a lake, etc.
- transitive verb rare To eject; to cast forth.
- intransitive verb To become discharged; to flow out; to find vent; to pour out contents.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To come out into the open
sea from ariver etc. - verb To pour out, to
debouch ; to flow out through a narrow opening into a larger space.
Etymologies
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Examples
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La Luc amused himself at intervals with discoursing, and pointing out the situations of considerable ports on the coast, and the mouths of the rivers that, after wandering through Provence, disembogue themselves into the Mediterranean.
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At the top of the Bay of Islands, two rivers disembogue, the Wye Catte and the Kawakawa: they are both small but beautiful streams.
A Narrative of a Nine Months' Residence in New Zealand in 1827 Augustus Earle
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Duke of Marlborough brandishing a truncheon upon a sign-post, surrounded with types and emblems, and canopied with cornucopias that disembogue their stores upon his head; Mercuries reclin'd upon bales of goods;
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 38, December, 1860 Various
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On the numerous navigable streams, measuring an aggregate course of some thirty thousand miles, which disembogue themselves through this magnificent river into the Gulf of Mexico, the increase of the population within the last ten years amounts to more than that of the entire Union at the time Louisiana was annexed to it.
Our War with Spain for Cuba's Freedom Trumbull White 1904
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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.
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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.
The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life William Rounseville Alger 1863
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If a man should say, God is falsehood and hatred, and in evidence of his declaration should make a whole cemetery disembogue its dead alive, or cause the sun suddenly to sink from its station at noon and return again, would his wonderful performance prove his horrible doctrine?
The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life William Rounseville Alger 1863
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-- In this word the diphthong ue is entirely sunk, as well as in the words dialogue, synagogue, &c; out in the words prorogue, disembogue, &c., it is not entirely sunk, for it has the evident effect of lengthening the final syllable.
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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.
Letters of George Borrow to the British and Foreign Bible Society George Henry Borrow 1842
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Till slowly it disembogue itself, in the thickening dusk, into expectant Paris, through
The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838
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From Thomas Carlyle's The French Revolution
March 6, 2011