debouch

debouch
/di boohsh", -bowch"/, 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. Physical Geog.
a. to emerge from a relatively narrow valley upon an open plain: A river or glacier debouches on the plains.
b. to flow from a small valley into a larger one.
3. to come forth; emerge.
n.
4. débouché.
[1655-65; < F déboucher, equiv. to dé- DIS-1 + -boucher, v. deriv. of bouche mouth < L bucca cheek, jaw]

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