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Debouch
//dɪˈbuːʃ// noun, verb
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A narrow outlet from which a body of water pours.
"In level portions of the country vertical shafts are preferred, but where the mine is situated upon a hill a debouch may often be found below the sulphur seam, ..."
- 2 A fortress at the end of a defile.
"To prevent another demonstration of this character, and to insure a debouch on the south bank of the James, it became necessary to occupy Coggin's Point, which was done on the 3d, and the enemy driven back towards Petersburg."
Verb
- 1 To pour forth from a narrow opening; to emerge from a narrow place like a defile into open country or a wider space. intransitive
"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."
- 2 pass out or emerge; especially of rivers wordnet
- 3 march out (as from a defile) into open ground wordnet
Etymology
Etymology 1
From French déboucher (de + bouche (“mouth”)), modelled on Italian sboccare.
Etymology 2
From French déboucher (de + bouche (“mouth”)), modelled on Italian sboccare.
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