Verb (used without object) : a river that disembogues into the ocean. From Dictionary.com.
At the top of the Bay of Islands, two rivers disembogue, the Wye Catte and the Kawakawa: they are both small but beautiful streams. From Wordnik.com. [A Narrative of a Nine Months' Residence in New Zealand in 1827] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 38, December, 1860] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [The Romance of the Forest] Reference
The bellowing floods shall disembogue their charge. From Wordnik.com. [The Poetical Works of Henry Kirk White : With a Memoir by Sir Harris Nicolas] Reference
Page view page image: of Belona, whereat we were to disembogue into that Ocean. From Wordnik.com. [Bucaniers of America:] Reference
Till slowly it disembogue itself, in the thickening dusk, into expectant Paris, through. From Wordnik.com. [The French Revolution] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [A Wanderer in Holland] Reference
When, by these and the like performances, they were grown sufficiently replete, they would immediately depart, and disembogue for the public good a plentiful share of their acquirements into their disciples 'chaps. From Wordnik.com. [A Tale of a Tub] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [The Scholar's Spelling Assistant; Wherein the Words Are Arranged on an Improved Plan, According to Their Respective Principles of Accentuation. In a Manner Calculated to Familiarize the Art of Spelling and Pronunciation, to Remove Difficulties, and to Facilitate General Improvement Intended for the Use of Schools and Private Tuition] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Our War with Spain for Cuba's Freedom] Reference
On the eastern coast the distance of the range of hills not only affords a larger scope for the course of the rivers before they disembogue, presents a greater surface for the receptacle of rain and vapours, and enables them to unite a greater number of subsidiary streams, but also renders the flux more steady and uniform by the extent of level space than where the torrent rolls more immediately from the mountains. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Sumatra Containing An Account Of The Government, Laws, Customs And Manners Of The Native Inhabitants] Reference
Investigating the modification of the passion, as I would analyze the elements that give a form to dead matter, I shall attempt to trace to their source the causes which have combined to render this nation the most polished, in a physical sense, and probably the most superficial in the world; and I mean to follow the windings of the various streams that disembogue into a terrific gulf, in which all the dignity of our nature is absorbed. From Wordnik.com. [Posthumous Works of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman] Reference
Volcanos bellow ere they disembogue. From Wordnik.com. [The complaint; or Night thoughts on life, death, and immortality. With the life of the author] Reference
16. disembogue. From Wordnik.com. [A Spelling-Book for Advanced Classes] Reference
"dire-struck," struck with terror. dirge (durj), funeral hymn. discern (di-zurn '), see, detect. discipline (dis'i-plin), training; punishment. disconsolate (dis-kon'so-lat), sorrowful, comfortless. discordant (dis-kor'dant), not harmonious. discountenance (dis-koun'te-nans), not approve of; discourage. discourse (dis-kors'), conversation. discredit (dis-kred'it), disbelief. disembogue (dis'em-bog '), discharge; flow out. disguise (dis-giz'), change the appearance of. dismember (dis-mem'ber), disjoint. disperse (dis-purs '), scatter. disputation (dis'pu-ta'shun), dispute, a reasoning on opposite sides. disqualify (dis-kwol'i-fi), render unfit. dissever (di-sev'er), part in two. dissolution (dis'o-lu'shun), separating into parts. dissonant (dis'o-nant), sounding harshly, discordant. distaff (dis'taf), a staff holding a bunch of flax, tow, or wool, from which thread is spun by hand. distended (dis-tend'ed), lengthened out. distorted (dis-tort'ed), twisted, wrested. ditto (dit'o), exact c. From Wordnik.com. [Elson Grammar School Literature v4] Reference
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