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Definition of Debouch
1. Verb. March out (as from a defile) into open ground. "The regiments debouched from the valley"
2. Verb. Pass out or emerge; especially of rivers. "The tributary debouched into the big river"
Definition of Debouch
1. v. i. To march out from a wood, defile, or other confined spot, into open ground; to issue.
2. v. i. To issue; -- said of a stream passing from a gorge out into an open valley or a plain.
Definition of Debouch
1. Noun. (geography) A narrow outlet from which a body of water pours. ¹
2. Noun. (military) A fortress at the end of a defile. ¹
3. Verb. To pour forth from a narrow opening. To emerge from a narrow place like a defile into open country or a wider space. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Debouch
1. to march into the open [v -ED, -ING, -ES]
Medical Definition of Debouch
1. To march out from a wood, defile, or other confined spot, into open ground; to issue. "Battalions debouching on the plain." (Prescott) Origin: F. Deboucher; pref. De- (L. Dis- or de) + boucher to stop up, fr. Bouche mouth, fr. L. Bucca the cheek. Cf. Disembogue. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Debouch
Literary usage of Debouch
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Manual for Engineer Troops by James Chatham Duane (1864)
"TO debouch BY THE SIMPLE OR DOUBLE SAP, FKOM A TRENCH OF ... "debouch." 4. "Halt."
At the first command, the assistants bring forward a sap-roller, ..."
2. The History of the French Revolution by Adolphe Thiers, Frederic Shoberl (1866)
"The cavalry, posted in the intervals between the hills, and especially in the
hollow which separates Jemappes from Cuesmes, were ready to debouch and to ..."
3. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America by Seismological Society of America (1911)
"... Rio Mendoza from the high mountains debouch upon the gently sloping plains
that extend thence to Buenos Aires, 3 distance of a thousand kilometers. ..."
4. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1903)
"... (1893). between independent nations; and their waters, after passing long
distances, debouch into the ocean. We may as approximately designate the open, ..."
5. Putnam's Word Book: A Practical Aid in Expressing Ideas Through the Use of by Louis Andrew Flemming (1919)
"... sally forth, debouch; proceed, emanate, ensue, follow, result. Italian laborers.
Associated word: padrone. Italian paste, macaroni, vermicelli. itch, ..."
6. The history of the French revolution, tr. with notes by F. Shoberl by Thomas Carlyle, Marie Joseph L. Adolphe Thiers (1838)
"... about the return of the Mountaineer municipality, telling them at the same
time that sixty thousand Piedmontese were ready to debouch upon their city. ..."
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