disembogue

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Till slowly it disembogue itself, in the thickening dusk, into expectant Paris, through

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  1. intransitive verb To flow out or empty, as water from a channel: "the river whose dirty waters disembogue into the harbor” (John Updike).
  2. transitive verb To discharge or pour forth (water, for example).

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  1. 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).

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  1. Formerly disemboque; from Spanish desembocar (= Portuguese desembocar), disembogue, from des- privative + embocar (= Portuguese embocar), enter by the mouth, or by a narrow passage: see dis- and embogue.
 

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/dɪsɛmˈboʊg/
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