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Debouch v. i. (past & past part. debouched; pres. part. debouching)

To march out from a wood, defile, or other confined spot, into open ground; to issue. "Battalions debouching on the plain."

(Geog.) To issue; said of a stream passing from a gorge out into an open valley or a plain.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Debouch" Quotes from Famous Books

... his meditations that he entirely failed to observe some mounted strangers debouch upon the market-place from the western end of the township. Nor was it until they obstructed his view that he awoke to their presence. Then he became aware of two men on two horses, ...

— The Forfeit • Ridgwell Cullum

... not by any means of equal value. The more intimately they deal with his own ways and habits, the more physiological they become in their shameless candour, the better do they please us. They grow less interesting to my thinking where they debouch into quotations, some of them whole pages in length, from his ...

— Suspended Judgments - Essays on Books and Sensations • John Cowper Powys

... the Germans, who had been hemmed in at Samogneux, after repeated struggles to debouch from that place, succeeded when night ...

— The Story of the Great War, Volume IV (of 8) • Francis J. (Francis Joseph) Reynolds, Allen L. (Allen Leon)

... a despairing glance at the inaccessible shelf of rock where he lay. Then it appeared to her that, although narrowing as it went, it ran upwards, forming a kind of rough track below the overhanging summit which, further along, might debouch on to the crest of ...

— The Vision of Desire • Margaret Pedler

Words linked to "Debouch" : emerge, process, come out, egress, issue, come forth, march, go forth, march out