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decamp
[ dih-kamp ]
verb (used without object)
- to depart from a camp; to pack up equipment and leave a camping ground:
We decamped before the rain began.
- to depart quickly, secretly, or unceremoniously:
The band of thieves decamped in the night.
decamp
/ dɪˈkæmp /
verb
- to leave a camp; break camp
- to depart secretly or suddenly; abscond
Derived Forms
- deˈcampment, noun
Other Words From
- de·campment noun
Word History and Origins
Example Sentences
Once a year growing up, my family would decamp to Lake Taupo for trout season.
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.
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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