Definitions for debouch

debouch de·bouch

Spelling: [dih-boosh, -bouch]
IPA: /dɪˈbuʃ, -ˈbaʊtʃ/

Debouch is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 133 anagrams from letters in debouch (bcdehou).

Definitions for debouch

verb (used without object)

  1. to march out from a narrow or confined place into open country, as a body of troops:
  2. Physical Geography. to emerge from a relatively narrow valley upon an open plain: to flow from a small valley into a larger one.
  3. to come forth; emerge.

noun

  1. débouché.

Origin of debouch

1655-65; French déboucher, equivalent to dé- dis-1 + -boucher, verbal derivative of bouche mouth Latin bucca cheek, jaw

Examples for debouch

The seas are getting larger as we debouch into the Atlantic.

Their debouch upon the plains of the Illinois has already been mentioned.

This is good-bye to any possibility of debouch, for there will be insufficient horses to move the guns.

Chattanooga was the portal from which the enemy could debouch upon the level country of the Gulf and Atlantic States.

Next day (November 3) the attack was towards Hollebeke, in combination with another attempt to debouch from Wytscheate.

debouch′ment, the act of debouching; debouchure′, the mouth of a river or strait.

They were just beginning to debouch on the other side when he pressed the button.

The regiments destined for the expedition began to debouch from the city.

Meanwhile, the 1st Corps crossed Rheims, with orders to debouch at Btheny.

But that any of these passages should debouch beyond the Roman lines had not occurred to them.

Word Value for debouch
Scrable

15

Words with friends

17

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