debouchment
Americannoun
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an act or instance of debouching.
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Physical Geography. Also debouchure a mouth or outlet, as of a river or pass.
noun
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the act or an instance of debouching
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Also: debouchure. an outlet, mouth, or opening
Etymology
Origin of debouchment
From the French word débouchement, dating back to 1820–30. See debouch, -ment
Example Sentences
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Residents and city-government officials prepared for the rains by placing sandbags along the Pacific Coast Highway and at the mouths of canyons—likely sites of ruinous debouchment.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 5, 2018
Every acre of the Connecticut, from the northernmost bridge that spans it in Vermont to its debouchment at Saybrook, might be made productive of as great a value as any onion-garden acre at Wethersfield.
From A Walk from London to John O'Groat's by Elihu Burritt
With a mind needing debouchment more than his body needed to relieve itself in the toilet he stayed where he was, which was where there were windows.
From An Apostate: Nawin of Thais by Steven (Steven David Justin) Sills
But fear lent us wings, and suddenly before us was a blaze of light and we saw the debouchment of our street in a main thoroughfare.
From Greenmantle by John Buchan
Certainly in the whole world there is no bolder coast than the Gallegan shore, from the debouchment of the Minho to Cape Finisterre.
From The Pocket George Borrow by Edward Thomas
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