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Wordnet 3.0

VERB (2)

1. march out (as from a defile) into open ground;
- Example: "The regiments debouched from the valley"
[syn: debouch, march out]

2. pass out or emerge; especially of rivers;
- Example: "The tributary debouched into the big river"


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Debouch \De*bouch"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Debouched; p. pr. & vb. n. Debouching.] [F. d['e]boucher; pref. d['e]- (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. [1913 Webster] Battalions debouching on the plain. --Prescott. [1913 Webster] 2. (Geog.) To issue; -- said of a stream passing from a gorge out into an open valley or a plain. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

debouch v 1: march out (as from a defile) into open ground; "The regiments debouched from the valley" [syn: debouch, march out] 2: pass out or emerge; especially of rivers; "The tributary debouched into the big river"