English [ edit ]

Etymology [ edit ]

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

Pronunciation [ edit ]

Verb [ edit ]

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.

, Walter Hamilton, , 2nd ed., volume II, "Mooltan", page 240 1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin 2006, p. 99: ‘Oh piffle, Durfeys – it flows to the westward and disembogues along the Pepper Coast.’

Synonyms [ edit ]

( come out into the open sea ) : debouch

( pour out ) : debouch

Derived terms [ edit ]

Translations [ edit ]

to come out into the open sea from a river