Definitions for debouches

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debouches de·bouch

Spelling: [dih-boosh, -bouch]

IPA: /dɪˈbuʃ, -ˈbaʊtʃ/

Debouches is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 17 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 308 anagrams from letters in debouches (bcdeehosu).

Definitions for debouches

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

noun

1. débouché.
2. débouché.
3. Fortification. a passage or opening through which troops may debouch.
4. an outlet; an exit.

Origin of debouches

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

Examples for debouches

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.

It debouches through great limestone quarries on the main road.

There were no debouches for throwing forces upon Lee, should he wish to assume the offensive.

It debouches into the sea at a cape 58 feet high named Ice Cape (Ledjanoi).

In the morning they were opposite the point where the Great Kanawha debouches into the Ohio.

Probably the river which on Massa's map is called Narontza, and debouches on the west coast of Yalmal.

This valley is of a less daring type of beauty than that which debouches at Abndames.

This river has no proper outlet to the sea, but debouches into a shallow marsh called Lake Alexandrina.

In the Gulf of Mexico, where the vast fresh-water current of the Mississippi debouches into the sea, they are unknown.

The town of Ladoga; it was situated at that time on the river Volkhov which debouches into the lake of Ladoga.

The existing Ambassador Bridge, the busiest border crossing on Earth, debouches into downtown Windsor.