disemboguement means the act of disemboguing; discharge. It carries an Arena rating of 1331, earned across 3 head-to-head judged battles.
Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, disemboguement ranks #764 of 17,163 for Funniest Words, #792 of 17,151 for The Improbable, #969 of 17,126 for Most Satisfying to Say, #1,894 of 17,124 for Most Sublime Words.
Why “disemboguement” is a great word
The act or place where a confined watercourse finally discharges into a larger, recipient body. Formed within English from the verb 'disembogue' (from Spanish 'desembocar', from 'des-' (dis-) + 'embocar' (to enter a mouth or narrow passage)) + the noun-forming suffix '-ment' (denoting an action or resulting state). Unlike an 'estuary', which specifies a tidal, mingled zone, or 'effluence', a more general term for outflow, disemboguement is the decisive, terminal act of a watercourse finding its end. It is the silt-laden fan of a great river surrendering to the sea, the last rocky chute of a creek becoming lake, the silent spread of a forgotten canal into waiting waters—the quiet, geographical sigh of a journey concluded.
Etymology
From disembogue + -ment.
noun
- The act of disemboguing; discharge.e.g.“The bars of arenaceous matter off Sandy Hook , where the Hudson joins the Atlantic , and , at the disemboguement of most great rivers , are plain confirmation of this procedure” — 1807, James Mease, Geological Account of the United States:
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