disembogue
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The river Paraná forms a great artery between Brazil and Paraguay; upon each side of it a network of rivers disembogue.
From A Vanished Arcadia: being some account of the Jesuits in Paraguay 1607-1767 by Cunninghame Graham, R. B. (Robert Bontine)
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 A Wanderer in Holland by Marshall, Herbert, R. W .S.
These two harbours furnish moreover, by the numerous streams and creeks that disembogue into them, most excellent means of communication with the interior.
Till slowly it disembogue itself, in the thickening dusk, into expectant Paris, through a double row of faces all the way from Passy to the Hotel-de-Ville.
From The French Revolution by Carlyle, Thomas
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 A Narrative of a Nine Months' Residence in New Zealand in 1827 by Earle, Augustus
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
