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de⋅bouch

  [di-boosh, -bouch]
Use debouch in a Sentence
–verb (used without object)
1. to march out from a narrow or confined place into open country, as a body of troops: The platoon debouched from the defile into the plain.
2. Physical Geography.
a. to emerge from a relatively narrow valley upon an open plain: A river or glacier debouches on the plains.
b. to flow from a small valley into a larger one.
3. to come forth; emerge.
–noun
4. débouché.
Origin:
1655–65; < F déboucher, equiv. to dé- dis- 1 + -boucher, v. deriv. of bouche mouth < L bucca cheek, jaw
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de·bouch   (dĭ-bouch', -bōōsh')   
v.   de·bouched, de·bouch·ing, de·bouch·es

v.   intr.

  1. To march from a narrow or confined area into the open.

  2. To emerge; issue: "His companions still lay in the bed of the ravine, through which the smaller stream debouched" (James Fenimore Cooper).

v.   tr.
To cause to emerge or issue.

[French déboucher : dé-, out of (from Old French des-; see de-) + bouche, mouth (from Latin bucca, cheek, mouth).]
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