Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The act or an instance of marching from a narrow, confined area into the open.
  • noun A debouchure.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The act of debouching.
  • noun An outlet.

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Examples

  • In the March 6 edition of the Simcoe Reformer, the word debouchment was spelled incorrectly in the article about a spelling bee.

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  • But fear lent us wings, and suddenly before us was a blaze of light and we saw the debouchment of our street in a main thoroughfare.

    Greenmantle 2005

  • Beyond, the passage widened and dipped into a debouchment with a pair of open doors.

    Time Streams King, J. Robert 1999

  • The harbor is a very fine one, having sufficient depth to float vessels of the largest size, which is indicated by its color, being of a beautiful blue, and forming a strong contrast to that of the Typa, and the waters around Macào, which are discolored by the debouchment of the

    Kathay: A Cruise in the China Seas W. Hastings Macaulay

  • Again there was debouchment upon a river valley, that of the Little

    Mormon Settlement in Arizona A Record of Peaceful Conquest of the Desert James H. McClintock

  • With a mind needing debouchment more than his body needed to relieve itself in the toilet he stayed where he was, which was where there were windows.

    An Apostate: Nawin of Thais

  • The day before yesterday an edict against catching fish, being taken off as I supposed it would be on shewing the Rajah some flies, Blake and I went down, and repeated our visit yesterday; the bed of the river at the debouchment of the path leading towards Tongsa, is elevated 1,431 feet,

    Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries William Griffith

  • But fear lent us wings, and suddenly before us was a blaze of light and we saw the debouchment of our street in a main thoroughfare.

    Greenmantle John Buchan 1907

  • The town of Dukla lies some fifteen miles due north of the Galician debouchment of the pass of that name, and Rymanow is about another fifteen miles east of that.

    The Story of the Great War, Volume V (of 12) Neuve Chapelle, Battle of Ypres, Przemysl, Mazurian Lakes Francis Trevelyan Miller 1902

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