debouch

Exit into openness

To debouch is to emerge or issue forth from a narrow or confined space into open ground.

Troops debouch from a mountain pass onto a plain; a river debouches into a bay.

The word is primarily military or geographical: The infantry debouched from the forest into the clearing.

The noun form is debouchment or debouche.

terrain

emerge

Come out into view

  • exitWay to leave
  • passMove beyond or decline
  • valleyLow ground between heights

gorge · ravine · canyon · defile · gap · narrows · opening · passage · constriction · bottleneck

river

mouth

Oral opening

confluence · discharge · empty · flow · channel · stream · watercourse · drainage · basin · tributary

military

emerge

Come out into view

sally · maneuver · flank · column · formation · march · charge · assault · breakthrough · offensive

Opposites
spatial movement/emergence

debouchretreat

Sanctuary or withdrawal

withdraw · enter · confine · enclose · converge

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