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debouch
OXFORD DICTIONARY
debouch, v.intr.
1 (of troops or a stream) issue from a ravine, wood, etc., into open ground.
2 (often foll. by into) (of a river, road, etc.) merge into a larger body or area.
1 (of troops or a stream) issue from a ravine, wood, etc., into open ground.
2 (often foll. by into) (of a river, road, etc.) merge into a larger body or area.
Derivative
debouchment n.
Etymology
F d{eacute}boucher (as DE-, bouche mouth)
THESAURUS
debouch
arise, bail out, blow out, bob up, break cover, break forth, break out, break through, burst forth, cast forth, come, come forth, come out, decant, discharge, disembogue, disgorge, effuse, ejaculate, emanate, emerge, eruct, erupt, exhaust, exit, expel, extravasate, extrude, find vent, flare up, flash, gleam, irrupt, issue, issue forth, jet, jump out, leak out, ooze out, outpour, pop up, pour, pour forth, pour out, protrude, run out, sally, sally forth, send forth, send out, spew, spout, spring up, spurt, squirt, start up, surface, throw outROGET THESAURUS
debouch
Departure
VB depart, go away, take one's departure, set out, set off, march off, put off, start off, be off, move off, get off, whip off, pack off, go off, take oneself off, start, issue, march out, debouch, go forth, sally forth, sally, set forward, be gone, hail from, leave a place, quit, vacate, evacuate, abandon, go off the stage, make one's exit, retire, withdraw, remove, vamoose, vamose, go one's way, go along, go from home, take flight, take wing, spring, fly, flit, wing one's flight, fly away, whip away, embark, go on board, go aboard, set sail' put to sea, go to sea, sail, take ship, hoist blue Peter, get under way, weigh anchor, strike tents, decamp, walk one's chalks, cut one's stick, take leave, say good bye, bid goodbye, disappear, abscond, entrain, inspan.Egress
N egress, exit, issue, emersion, emergence, outbreak, outburst, eruption, proruption, emanation, egression, evacuation, exudation, transudation, extravasation, perspiration, sweating, leakage, percolation, distillation, oozing, gush, outpour, outpouring, effluence, effusion, effluxion, drain, dribbling, defluxion, drainage, outcome, output, discharge, export, expatriation, emigration, remigration, debouch, debouche, emunctory, exodus, emigrant, outlet, vent, spout, tap, sluice, floodgate, pore, vomitory, outgate, sally port, way out, mouth, door, path, conduit, airpipe, effused, outgoing.VB emerge, emanate, issue, egress, go out of, come out of, move out of, pass out of, pour out of, flow out of, pass out of, evacuate, exude, transude, leak, run through, out through, percolate, transcolate, egurgitate, strain, distill, perspire, sweat, drain, ooze, filter, filtrate, dribble, gush, spout, flow out, well, well out, pour, trickle, effuse, extravasate, disembogue, discharge itself, debouch, come forth, break forth, burst out, burst through, find vent, escape.
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