Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To march from a narrow or confined area into the open.
- intransitive verb To emerge; issue.
- intransitive verb To cause to emerge or issue.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To emerge or pass out; issue
- In physical geography, to issue from a mountain: said of a river which enters a plain from an elevated region.
- In anatomy, to open out; empty or pour contents, as into a duct or other vessel: as, the ureter debouches into the bladder.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb To march out from a wood, defile, or other confined spot, into open ground; to issue.
- intransitive verb (Geog.) To issue; -- said of a stream passing from a gorge out into an open valley or a plain.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun geography A narrow outlet from which a body of water pours.
- noun military A fortress at the end of a
defile . - verb To
pour forth from a narrow opening. To emerge from a narrow place like adefile into open country or a wider space.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb march out (as from a defile) into open ground
- verb pass out or emerge; especially of rivers
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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The emergency-exit stairs at One World Trade Center will debouch to the street rather than into the lobby to head off a mayhem collision of firefighters and panicking tenants.
The Skyscraper as a Pillar of Confidence Julie V. Iovine 2011
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The sparrow had arrived in a block and cannot debouch from a there.
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If you ignore that exit and keep going straight, you will debouch onto Admiral Kalbfus Road opposite the Newport Grand Slots emporium.
Ron Paul Johnny Pez 2007
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If you ignore that exit and keep going straight, you will debouch onto Admiral Kalbfus Road opposite the Newport Grand Slots emporium.
Archive 2007-11-01 Johnny Pez 2007
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Whilst they were debating these points, the Lacedaemonians had incorporated the men of Tegea and the men of Mantinea, and were ready to debouch into the bimarine region. 256 And as the two armies advanced almost at the same time, the Corinthians and the rest reached the Nemea,257 and the Lacedaemonians and their allies occupied Sicyon.
Hellenica 2007
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And have we any British interests which would be interfered with by a debouch of the Egyptians on the sea?
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Adrian and the four younger ladies, armed with such shooting sticks as had been left by the ‘guns,’ proceeded down a farm lane towards where the main ‘drive’ of the afternoon would debouch.
Maid in Waiting 2004
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The material is heavy, but shows no quartz; whereas the smaller valleys which debouch upon the northern or right bank of the main line, display a curious conformation of the “white stone,” contorted like oyster shells, and embedded in the trap.
The Land of Midian 2003
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And that is the firm belief of all of the NATO allies, that we need to continue to strike at his instruments of repression and intensify those, rather than to let up and debouch.
Press Briefing By Joe Lockhart ITY National Archives 1999
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One tight crawlway wormed through the citadel walls to debouch near the Postern of Fate.
The Tower of Fear Cook, Glen 1989
brtom commented on the word debouch
See, vast trackless spaces,
As in a dream they change, they swiftly fill,
Countless masses debouch upon them ...
Whitman, "Starting from Paumanok"
January 9, 2008
bilby commented on the word debouch
"Suddenly on my left I heard the hoot of another car, and realized to my horror that I was almost up on a couple of gate-posts through which a private road debouched on the highway."
- John Buchan, 'The Thirty-Nine Steps'.
August 27, 2009
qms commented on the word debouch
Some things ooze and others gush
In trickles or in a headlong rush
But all will debouch
With unifying whoosh
In the Heraclitean morning flush.
November 25, 2015