| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. Of Debouch.[Websters]
2. To be unstopped or unwrapped. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. To have emerged or uncorked. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. To have discharged, issued or drained.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Past Tense | 1. Past tense conjugation of the verb debouch.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (debouch) | 1. March out (as from a defile) into open ground; "The regiments debouched from the valley".[Wordnet]. 2. Pass out or emerge; especially of rivers; "The tributary debouched into the big river".[Wordnet]. 3. To march out from a wood, defile, or other confined spot, into open ground; to issue.[Websters]. 4. Base verb from the following inflections: debouching, debouched, debouches, deboucher, debouchers, debouchingly and debouchedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), compiled from various sources, under license. | Top | |
Date "DEBOUCHED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1813. (references) |
Specialty Definition: debouch
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | [Verb] To issue or march out of a narrow place, or from defiles, as troops.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. | ||
| Administration | To emerge; issue, as a river into which a large stream debouches. (references) | ||
| Geology | To emerge or issue; often used in reference to rivers or streams. (references) | ||
| Wiktionary | [Verb] To pour forth from a narrow opening. To emerge from a narrow place like a defile into open country or a wider space. 1985, 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. — Anthony Burgess, Kingdom of the Wicked 1993, 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. — Will Self, My Idea of Fun 1997, the water rushes away in uncommonly long waterfalls, downward for hours, unbrak'd, till at last debouching into an interior Lake of great size — Thomas Pynchon, Mason & Dixon. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | Top | ||
