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  • noun Plural form of debouch.
  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of debouch.

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Examples

  • The Deed, though it was at the beginning, essentially issues from something prior and debouches into something ulterior: it must, then, have issued from other deed and led to more deeds in the future.

    Archive 2008-10-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2008

  • The Deed, though it was at the beginning, essentially issues from something prior and debouches into something ulterior: it must, then, have issued from other deed and led to more deeds in the future.

    Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana Matthew Guerrieri 2008

  • From the gate the City debouches on to the southern bank, pooling into a slummy afterthought of brothels, taverns, and pleasure gardens, a patch beyond the City's jurisdiction, the haunt of thieves and prostitutes, gamblers and bear baiters.

    well i don't know if i'm wrong because she's only just gone melissima 2007

  • Hundreds of these can only be reached by riding in the bed of a stream, or by scrambling up some narrow canyon till it debouches on the fairy-like stretch above.

    A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains 2007

  • On the 12th of April, after six hours of the weariest march I had ever undergone, we arrived at the mouth of the Mukondokwa Pass, out of which the river debouches into the Plain of Makata.

    How I Found Livingstone Henry Morton 2004

  • West Ninth Street, in the opinion of LindaAnn Loschiavo, whose apartment building debouches onto it, is in every respect one of the most fascinating blocks in New York City, even though nobody knows anything about it except that Marianne Moore the poet lived on it.

    Archive 2004-07-01 Mae West NYC 2004

  • West Ninth Street, in the opinion of LindaAnn Loschiavo, whose apartment building debouches onto it, is in every respect one of the most fascinating blocks in New York City, even though nobody knows anything about it except that Marianne Moore the poet lived on it.

    Jerry Tallmer talks about Mae West Mae West NYC 2004

  • Bunghi, a praça, or square; it debouches upon the Quitanda Pequena,

    Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo 2003

  • At a distance from Vardoehus of about six-sevenths of the way Between that town and Swjatoinos, there debouches into the Arctic Ocean, in 68 deg. 20 min.N. L. and 38 deg. 30 min.E. L. from Greenwich, a river, which in recent maps is called the Varzina.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • The bed, after forming a basin, narrows to a sandy gut, smooth and pleasant riding; and, after crossing several valley-heads, the path debouches upon the

    The Land of Midian 2003

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