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Disembogue vs Embogue - What's the difference?

disembogue | embogue |

As verbs the difference between disembogue and embogue

is that disembogue is to come out into the open sea from a river etc while embogue is to disembogue; to discharge, as a river, its waters into the sea or another river.

disembogue

English

Verb

(en-verb)
  • To come out into the open sea from a river etc.
  • The ships disembogued from the harbour.
  • * 1612-1613 , , 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.
  • *1982 , (TC Boyle), Water Music , Penguin 2006, p. 99:
  • *:‘Oh piffle, Durfeys – it flows to the westward and disembogues along the Pepper Coast.’
  • Synonyms

    * (come out into the open sea) debouch * (pour out) debouch

    Derived terms

    * disemboguement

    embogue

    English

    Verb

    (embogu)
  • (archaic) To disembogue; to discharge, as a river, its waters into the sea or another river.
  • (Webster 1913)