Friday, April 19, 2013

Boston Disembogued

Adventures in Logophilia, No. 204:

disembogue

This verb means "to flow out or empty, as water does from a channel."  That is one of many words I can think of to describe the many images that have emerged of empty, quiet Boston today - a truly eerie sight.  A lively, bustling city has been emptied of people. 

Morning above a still-closed Boylston Street, three days after. Looking down Gloucester St. towards MIT. Boston, MA
Gloucester Street by Brad Kelly

An empty street is seen near the historic Faneuil Hall (on L, with white cupola) and City Hall (back, in C) in Boston, Massachusetts on April 19, 2013, as the manhunt continues for Dzhokar Tsarnaev, the remaining suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings. Police killed one suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing, Tamerlan Tsarneav, in a shootout and mounted house-to-house searches for the second man, his brother Dzhokar Tsarnaev, on Friday, with much of the city under virtual lockdown after a bloody night of shooting and explosions in the streets.
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