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decamp

[ dih-kamp ]

verb (used without object)

  1. to depart from a camp; to pack up equipment and leave a camping ground:

    We decamped before the rain began.

  2. to depart quickly, secretly, or unceremoniously:

    The band of thieves decamped in the night.



decamp

/ dɪˈkæmp /

verb

  1. to leave a camp; break camp
  2. to depart secretly or suddenly; abscond
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Derived Forms

  • deˈcampment, noun
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Other Words From

  • de·campment noun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of decamp1

1670–80; < French décamper, equivalent to dé- dis- 1 + camper to encamp; camp 1
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Example Sentences

Once a year growing up, my family would decamp to Lake Taupo for trout season.

From Eater

Elizabeth decamped to Britain along with her companion and ward, Kitty, whom she adopted as a child.

By 2020, the paper’s prize-winning investigative reporter and some of its top editors had decamped to a new, nonprofit newsroom, Mountain State Spotlight.

Peter took precautions before and during his flights to Richmond, and if the in-person connection with Betty proved flimsy, he figured he could always decamp to his mother’s place.

Most decamped to more encrypted messaging apps after Parler, a social app popular with conservatives, went offline when Amazon pulled its hosting services.

From Time

Within a couple of years he intends to decamp for either San Diego or San Francisco.

For starters, you must eliminate excess, so, if you wished, you could decamp on a dime.

Since the evening before, aides-decamp, leaving the governor's palace, galloped in every direction.

To "shoot the moon," as the English say, is to decamp from a house without paying the rent.

A pleasant sight it was, to behold the prelates occupied in hunting him, for he would not decamp!

All at once it struck me that if I really frightened him too much they might decamp without making a clean sweep.

Mr. Farrar is housekeeper, and 'tidies up' with such vigour that his three comrades threaten to give up their lodgings and decamp.

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