Debouch



GRE

解释

GRE 红宝书

• v. 流出, 进入 ( 开阔地区)
• ［英］ v. 流出, 进入 ( 开阔地区) ( to come forth from a narrow place into open country; emerge)
• ［记］ de+bouch ( 嘴mouth) -> 从嘴中流出; 比较: debauch ( 放荡)
• ［例］ The river debouches into a wide plain.

Webster Collegiate

verb

• Etymology: French déboucher, from dé- de- + bouche mouth, from Old French boche, from Latin bucca cheek
• Date: 1745
• transitive verb
  • to cause to emerge ; discharge
• intransitive verb
  • 1. to march out into open ground <troops debouching from the town>
  • 2. emerge, issue <rivers debouching into the sea>
• ? debouchment noun

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