debouch

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He was so engrossed upon his meditations that he entirely failed to observe some mounted strangers debouch upon the market-place from the western end of the township.

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

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  1. French déboucher : dé-, out of (from Old French des-; see de-) + bouche, mouth (from Latin bucca, cheek, mouth).

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  1. from French déboucher (= Italian diboccare), emerge from, issue, pass out, transitive open, uncork, from dé-, from, + boucher, stop up, from bouche, mouth, from Latin bucca, cheek.
 

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