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May 26, 2012
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de•bouch



Pronunciation: (di-bOOsh', -bouch'), [key]
—v.i.
1. to march out from a narrow or confined place into open country, as a body of troops: The platoon debouched from the defile into the plain.
2. Physical Geog.
a. to emerge from a relatively narrow valley upon an open plain: A river or glacier debouches on the plains.
b. to flow from a small valley into a larger one.
3. to come forth; emerge.

—n.
débouché.

Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.

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