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Debouch

verb
(past & past part. debouched; pres. part. debouching)
1.
March out (as from a defile) into open ground.  Synonym: march out.
2.
Pass out or emerge; especially of rivers.





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"Debouch" Quotes from Famous Books



... hour we laid perdu in the hollow, no wiser for our watching. Then I saw a number of riders debouch from the camp, and at once trained the glasses on them. At first I couldn't distinguish any particular face among so many shifting forms, but presently they split in two bodies, and these again subdivided; and in the bunch coming toward us I recognized three men, Lessard, unmistakable ...
— Raw Gold - A Novel • Bertrand W. Sinclair
... enter at (what I suppose to be) the "orifice," but generally at the chalaza...Do you know how pollen-tubes go naturally in Primula? Do they run down walls of ovarium, and then turn up the placenta, and so debouch near the ...
— More Letters of Charles Darwin Volume II - Volume II (of II) • Charles Darwin


Words linked to "Debouch" :   go forth, come out, process, emerge, issue, come forth, egress, march out, march


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