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dis⋅em⋅bogue

[dis-em-bohg] verb, -bogued, -bogu⋅ing.
–verb (used without object)
1. to discharge contents by pouring forth.
2. to discharge water, as at the mouth of a stream: a river that disembogues into the ocean.
–verb (used with object)
3. to discharge; cast forth.

Origin:
1585–95; earlier disemboque, disemboke < Sp desembocar, equiv. to des- dis- 1 + embocar to enter by the mouth (en- in (< L in- in- 2 ) + boc(a) mouth (< L bucca) + -ar inf. suffix)


dis⋅em⋅bogue⋅ment, noun
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dis·em·bogue   (dĭs'ěm-bōg')   
v.   dis·em·bogued, dis·em·bogu·ing, dis·em·bogues

v.   intr.
To flow out or empty, as water from a channel: "the river whose dirty waters disembogue into the harbor" (John Updike).
v.   tr.
To discharge or pour forth (water, for example).

[From Spanish desembogue, mouth of a river, from desembocar, to flow out : des-, reversal (from Latin dis-; see dis-) + embocar, to put into the mouth (en-, in from Latin in-; see in-2 + boca, mouth from Latin bucca, cheek).]
dis'em·bogue'ment n.
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