debouche

present singular third person debouches · participle present debouching · participle past debouched · past debouched

1. governmentTo enter into battle.

   he debouched by the great high road through the forest, in the rear of the Austrian and Bavarian armies, while General Moreau attacked in front.

   1839, Mathieu Dumas, Memoirs of His Own Time, volume 2, page 192

2. geographyTo discharge into a larger body of water such as a lake or sea.

   He chose a place called Colmnakill, about six miles farther down the Spey, where a tributary stream, debouching into that river, gave him protection on one side

   1829, Robert Chambers, History of the Rebellions in Scotland, page 57

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   He crossed the lane, took his companion a little way down North Street, and turned into a narrow thoroughfare which presently debouched on a wide space flanked by big, old-fashioned houses.

   1923, Joseph Smith Fletcher, chapter 3, in The Lost Mr. Linthwaite, New York: Grosset & Dunlap, page 28