debouch verb. [dɪ'baʊtʃ, -'bu:ʃ] M18.
[French déboucher, from dé- DE- 3 + bouche mouth, after synon. Italian sboccare.]
1. verb intrans. (Orig. Military, of troops etc.) emerge from a narrow or confined place into open ground; issue (as) from a mouth or outlet (into, on). M18.
■ A. Price The Parliamentary battle-line began to debouch from the trees.
■ M. M. Kaye Here another spring debouched from the rocks above.

2. verb trans. Lead into open ground; provide an outlet for; pour forth. M18.
■ J. Cheever An enormous samovar..debouched forty men in Cossack uniform singing.

■ debouchment noun E19.

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