Disembogue
"With Earth Day upon us, we head down to the last in the trinity of public access points on the lower Jordan River, Kasr el Yehud, just above where the Jordan disembogues into the Dead Sea."
[Yahoo Adventures: Jordan River*]
VERB: Inflected forms: dis·em·bogued, dis·em·bogu·ing, dis·em·bogues
INTRANSITIVE VERB: To flow out or empty, as water from a channel: “the river whose dirty waters disembogue into the harbor” (John Updike).
TRANSITIVE VERB: To discharge or pour forth (water, for example).
ETYMOLOGY: From Spanish desembogue, mouth of a river, from desembocar, to flow out : des-, reversal (from Latin dis-) + embocar, to put into the mouth (from Latin in-) + boca, mouth (from Latin bucca, cheek).
OTHER FORMS: disem·boguement —NOUN
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[Yahoo Adventures: Jordan River*]
VERB: Inflected forms: dis·em·bogued, dis·em·bogu·ing, dis·em·bogues
INTRANSITIVE VERB: To flow out or empty, as water from a channel: “the river whose dirty waters disembogue into the harbor” (John Updike).
TRANSITIVE VERB: To discharge or pour forth (water, for example).
ETYMOLOGY: From Spanish desembogue, mouth of a river, from desembocar, to flow out : des-, reversal (from Latin dis-) + embocar, to put into the mouth (from Latin in-) + boca, mouth (from Latin bucca, cheek).
OTHER FORMS: disem·boguement —NOUN
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