debouch: Meaning and Definition of

de•bouch

Pronunciation: (di-bsh', -bouch'), [key]
— v.i.
  1. to march out from a narrow or confined place into open country, as a body of troops: The platoon debouched from the defile into the plain.
  2. A river or glacier debouches on the plains.
    1. to emerge from a relatively narrow valley upon an open plain:A river or glacier debouches on the plains.
    2. to flow from a small valley into a larger one.
  3. to come forth; emerge.
—n.
  1. débouché.
Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.
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