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debouch
debouch \dih-BOWCH;
-BOOSH\, v.i.
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 Geog. 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.
–n. 4. débouché.
[1655–65; < F déboucher,
equiv. to dé- DIS-1
+ -boucher, v. deriv. of bouche mouth < L bucca
cheek, jaw]
(Random
House Webster's Unabridged).
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v.t. To cause to emerge or issue; to discharge.
When the mill hands hassled Pete at the Manchester Cafe, he took
off his apron, debouched from behind the counter and
beat them senseless.——
Richard Rhodes,
Why They Kill
Bangladesh, one of the most populous spots on earth, is virtually
the delta of the Brahmaputra and Ganga river systems, where numerous
streams and rivers debouch to the Bay of Bengal.——
"Blood on the Border,"
Times of
India, April 23, 2001
. . . one of those ancient towns of central France where the
streets wind upward from the railway track, through scowling walls of
medievalism, until they debouch in the square outside
the cathedral door, surveyed by huge stone animals from the cathedral
tower and prowled around on Sunday mornings by cats and desultory
tourists.—— Jan
Morris,
Fifty Years of Europe
I was soon in despair and on the verge of asking to be moved to
another town when I met Tor, a wonderful young kid who suggested we
make an adventure together. He wanted to set forth in his open wooden
fishing skiff down the Geirangerfjord, a magical finger of water that
lances into Norway's slender mainland amid towering snow-capped
mountains that everywhere debouch cataracts of water from their
alpine glaciers. ——
Orville Schell in 'Second
Sightings: Eight Wish Lists; Norway',
The New York Times, Sep 13, 1998
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