Definition of "debouch" []

• To march from a narrow or confined area into the open. (verb-intransitive)
• To emerge; issue: "His companions still lay in the bed of the ravine, through which the smaller stream debouched” ( James Fenimore Cooper). (verb-intransitive)
• To cause to emerge or issue. (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "The emergency-exit stairs at One World Trade Center will debouch to the street rather than into the lobby to head off a mayhem collision of firefighters and panicking tenants."
• "The sparrow had arrived in a block and cannot debouch from a there."
• "Whilst they were debating these points, the Lacedaemonians had incorporated the men of Tegea and the men of Mantinea, and were ready to debouch into the bimarine region. 256 And as the two armies advanced almost at the same time, the Corinthians and the rest reached the Nemea,257 and the Lacedaemonians and their allies occupied Sicyon."