disembogue

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

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˌdɪs.ɪmˈbəʊɡ/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˌdɪs.ɪmˈboʊɡ/

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• Rhymes: -əʊɡ

disembogue (third-person singular simple present disembogues, present participle disemboguing, simple past and past participle disembogued)

1. 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.

2. (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.’

• (come out into the open sea): debouch
• (pour out): debouch

• disemboguement