debouch

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   to emerge from a narrow or enclosed place into a wider, open area

   The path debouches from the forest onto a broad plateau.

2. 2
   verb

   of a river or stream, to flow out into a larger body of water

   The river debouches into the bay below the old fort.

Borrowed from French deboucher, literally to unmouth or come out of a mouth, formed from de- + bouche, meaning mouth. The military and geographical senses both picture movement from a narrow passage into open space.

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