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English Dictionary: Debouch by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
debouch
v
  1. march out (as from a defile) into open ground; "The regiments debouched from the valley"
    Synonym(s): debouch, march out
  2. pass out or emerge; especially of rivers; "The tributary debouched into the big river"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Debouch \De*bouch"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Debouched}; p. pr. &
      vb. n. {Debouching}.] [F. d[82]boucher; pref. d[82]- (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.
  
               Battalions debouching on the plain.         --Prescott.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Debouch \De*bouch"\, v. i. (Geog.)
      To issue; -- said of a stream passing from a gorge out into
      an open valley or a plain.
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