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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of debouche.

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Examples

  • Geared from the start with her charm, fierce determination and a precocious vocabulary, I didn't like her, and I didn't like the character of the debouched marshal played with obnoxious magnificence by Jeff Bridges.

    Carol Smaldino: Examining Our Nation's True Grit: Can We Change Our Minds? Carol Smaldino 2011

  • Geared from the start with her charm, fierce determination and a precocious vocabulary, I didn't like her, and I didn't like the character of the debouched marshal played with obnoxious magnificence by Jeff Bridges.

    Carol Smaldino: Examining Our Nation's True Grit: Can We Change Our Minds? Carol Smaldino 2011

  • When this horde of crazed women debouched on the next department, Those who worked there joined in the stampede to escape from they knew not what danger.

    CHAPTER XIV 2010

  • The guide salaamed, half-mockingly, half-wondering at such eloquence, pausing in the passage to point into the side-caves that debouched to either hand.

    In The Time Of Light dj barber 2010

  • The explanations which ensued proved that the squadron of volunteers had separated from the column at the same time that I had when we debouched from the canon, and had pursued an intermediate trail through the hills, which brought it into the valley of the Yakima at a point higher up the river than where I had struck it.

    She Makes Her Mouth Small & Round & Other Stories 2010

  • Retiring sullenly under a heavy fire, while the general line was reformed to my right and rear, my division was at length drawn through the cedars and debouched into an open space near the Murfreesboro 'pike, behind the right of Palmer's division.

    She Makes Her Mouth Small & Round & Other Stories 2010

  • Shortly after we debouched from the cedars I was directed by Rosecrans to send some aid to the right of General Palmer's division; and two of Schaefer's regiments, having obtained ammunition, were pushed up on Palmer's right, accompanied by four of Hescock's guns; but the advance of the enemy here had already been checked by Palmer, and only a desultory contest ensued.

    She Makes Her Mouth Small & Round & Other Stories 2010

  • Unfortunately, the 7th Armoured proved incapable of wresting Point 175 from the numerically inferior Ariete, and the South Africans debouched on to the Trigh Capuzzo seven miles further west, only to fall back after a single skirmish.

    Sealing Their Fate David Downing 2009

  • Past the field were some more woods, which debouched onto another road, this one with houses scattered along its length.

    Archive 2009-12-01 Johnny Pez 2009

  • The rusty door debouched into a small office with a shabby desk and a dented metal file cabinet.

    DBTL 21: A Post About Nothing Johnny Pez 2009

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