DEBOUCH

Debouch

Debouch from French origin meaning to cause to emerge, and is a term used in river, stream, and glacier geography. The term also has a usage in military applications.

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debouch

Noun

  1. A narrow outlet from which a body of water pours.
  2. A fortress at the end of a defile.

Verb

  1. To pour forth from a narrow opening. To emerge from a narrow place like a defile into open country or a wider space.
    • 1985, the pretty pimpled young man, no longer a boy, came down from the imperial box in his purple to the performers’ well which debouched into the arena. — Anthony Burgess, Kingdom of the Wicked
    • 1993, Ungrateful brats debouch from their cheap holiday in someone else’s misery and their tired parents try desperately to summon up joy out of indifference. — Will Self, My Idea of Fun
    • 1997, the water rushes away in uncommonly long waterfalls, downward for hours, unbrak’d, till at last debouching into an interior Lake of great size — Thomas Pynchon, Mason & Dixon


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