disembogue

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   of a river, stream, or channel: to flow out into the sea or another larger body of water

   The river disembogues into the Atlantic through a broad muddy estuary.

2. 2
   verb

   formal or humorous: to emerge, pour, or discharge from a confined space into a larger one

   The theater crowd disembogued into the square after the final curtain.

Adapted from Spanish desembocar, 'to flow out through a mouth,' formed from des- + embocar, from boca, 'mouth.' English first used it for rivers entering the sea and later extended it figuratively to people or things pouring into an open space.

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