Found 2 items, similar to Debouch.
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: debouch
debouch
v 1: march out (as from a defile) into open ground;
“The
regiments debouched from the valley” [syn:
march out]
2: pass out or emerge; especially of rivers;
“The tributary
debouched into the big river”
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Debouch
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.
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