Ääntäminen
- Tuntematon aksentti:
- IPA: /dɪˈbuːʃ/
- IPA: /dɪˈbaʊt͡ʃ/
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Määritelmät
Substantiivit
- (geography) A narrow outlet from which a body of water pours.
- (military) A fortress at the end of a defile.
Verbit
- To pour forth from a narrow opening. To emerge from a narrow place like a defile into open country or a wider space.
Esimerkit
- In level portions of the country vertical shafts are preferred, but where the mine is situated upon a hill a debouch may often be found below the sulphur seam, ...
- To prevent another demonstration of this character, and to insure a debouch on the south bank of the James, it became necessary to occupy Coggin's Point, which was done on the 3d, and the enemy driven back towards Petersburg.
- 1985, the pretty pimpled young man, no longer a boy, came down from the imperial box in his purple to the performers’ well which debouched into the arena. — Anthony Burgess, Kingdom of the Wicked
- 1993, Ungrateful brats debouch from their cheap holiday in someone else’s misery and their tired parents try desperately to summon up joy out of indifference. — Will Self, My Idea of Fun
- 1997, the water rushes away in uncommonly long waterfalls, downward for hours, unbrak’d, till at last debouching into an interior Lake of great size — Thomas Pynchon, Mason & Dixon
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