Debouch
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /dɪˈbuːʃ/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Debouch is a noun meaning (geography) A narrow outlet from which a body of water pours.
Meaning
(geography) A narrow outlet from which a body of water pours.
More Meanings
- (military) A fortress at the end of a defile.
- (intransitive) To pour forth from a narrow opening; to emerge from a narrow place like a defile into open country or a wider space.
Example Sentences
The water rushes away in uncommonly long waterfalls, downward for hours, unbrak’d, till at last debouching into an interior Lake of great size.
The pretty pimpled young man, no longer a boy, came down from the imperial box in his purple to the performers’ well which debouched into the arena.
Ungrateful brats debouch from their cheap holiday in someone else’s misery and their tired parents try desperately to summon up joy out of indifference.
In level portions of the country vertical shafts are preferred, but where the mine is situated upon a hill a debouch may often be found below the sulphur seam, .
Word Forms
- debouches
- debouching
- debouched
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include junction, outlet, outtake, issue, outgate, goesouta.
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