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- to pour forth from a narrow opening
*1985: the pretty pimpled young man, no longer a boy, came down from the imperial box in his purple to the performers' well which debouched into the arena. — Anthony Burgess, Kingdom of the Wicked
*1993: Ungrateful brats debouch from their cheap holiday in someone else's misery and their tired parents try desperately to summon up joy out of indifference. — Will Self, My Idea of Fun
*1997: the water rushes away in uncommonly long waterfalls, downward for hours, unbrak'd, till at last debouching into an interior Lake of great size — Thomas Pynchon, Mason & Dixon
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
De*bouch" (?), v. i. (Geog.)
To issue; -- said of a stream passing from a gorge out into an
open valley or a plain.
De*bouch" (?), v. i. [imp. & p.
p. Debouched (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Debouching.] [F. déboucher; pref. dé-
(L. dis- or de) + boucher to stop up, fr.
bouche mouth, fr. L. bucca the cheek. Cf.
Disembogue.] To march out from a wood, defile, or other
confined spot, into open ground; to issue.
Battalions debouching on the
plain. Prescott.
De*bouch" (?), v. i. (Geog.)
To issue; -- said of a stream passing from a gorge out into an
open valley or a plain.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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