Word of the Day – Disembogue

Disembogue (verb)

dis-em-bowg

(of a river or stream) emerge or be discharged into the sea or a larger river.

Late 16th century from Spanish desembocar, from des- (expressing reversal) + embocar ‘run into a creek or strait’ (based on boca ‘mouth’).

Example sentences

“That river disembogues into the northern ocean’.”