The [tour] guide, who was driving, was as blustering and half-baked as a used car commercial. … We debouched from the bus feeling shaken but freshly energized, like we’d busted out of a hostage situation. (Dwight Garner, “Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s Enduring San Francisco,” The New York Times, 3/11/2019.)
This word can also be a synonym for appear and materialize, both in the sense of emerge.
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