'Debouch' definitions:

Definition of 'debouch'

(from WordNet)
verb
March out (as from a defile) into open ground; "The regiments debouched from the valley" [syn: debouch, march out]
verb
Pass out or emerge; especially of rivers; "The tributary debouched into the big river"

Definition of 'Debouch'

From: GCIDE
  • Debouch \De*bouch"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Debouched; p. pr. & vb. n. Debouching.] [F. d['e]boucher; pref. d['e]- (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. [1913 Webster]
  • Battalions debouching on the plain. --Prescott. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. (Geog.) To issue; -- said of a stream passing from a gorge out into an open valley or a plain. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

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