debouch

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But who knew that for centuries it has been possible to travel inland by boat from Rotterdam, climb the Rhine, get into the Danube and debouch upon the Black Sea?

From Time Magazine Archive

Undirected, highways smash and crash through whole neighborhoods, debouch a torrent of autos into already traffic-choked streets.

From Time Magazine Archive

We long to debouch into some path that leads nowhere.

From Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations by Powys, John Cowper

The general slope is toward the Amazon, and its rivers debouch upon the Amazonian plain through a succession of falls and rapids.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 4 "Bradford, William" to "Brequigny, Louis" by Various

Having placed his army within striking distance of the various passages across the Tugela, Sir Redvers Buller’s next object was to cross and debouch.

From South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 3 (of 6) From the Battle of Colenso, 15th Dec. 1899, to Lord Roberts's Advance into the Free State, 12th Feb. 1900 by Creswicke, Louis