debouch
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debouch
- /dɪˈbuːʃ/
- /dɪˈbaʊt͡ʃ/
Where it comes from
From French déboucher (de + bouche (“mouth”)), modelled on Italian sboccare.
noun debouches
- 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, ...
- 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 debouches · debouching · debouched
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To pour forth from a narrow opening; to emerge from a narrow place like a defile into open country or a wider space.
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.
Similar: disembogue
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