encamp
Americanverb (used without object)
verb
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encampsimple
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encampssimple
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have encampedperfect
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has encampedperfect
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am encampingprogressive
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are encampingprogressive
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is encampingprogressive
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have been encampingperfect progressive
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has been encampingperfect progressive
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encampedsimple
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had encampedperfect
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was encampingprogressive
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were encampingprogressive
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had been encampingperfect progressive
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Brooke Keast, spokeswoman for the Nevada Department of Corrections, said 19 networks and 120 reporters are expected to encamp outside Lovelock Correctional Center, where he is serving time for robbery and kidnapping convictions in 2008.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 19, 2017
Every summer, as part of a Landsbjörg initiative called Safe Travel, rescue teams encamp there for a week at a time to patrol the area and be on hand for the inevitable mishaps.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 9, 2015
They also attract squatters, who sometimes encamp beneath covered patios, he said.
From New York Times ● Nov. 12, 2011
The best source of that, experts say, may be for him to encamp on the margins of celebrity: O.J. could sell his story to magazines and tabloids and peddle his autograph at card shows.
From Time Magazine Archive
We were obliged to go on some time after dark, not being able to find a spot large enough to encamp on.
From Oregon and Eldorado or, Romance of the Rivers by Bulfinch, Thomas
Every four years, news organizations commit millions of dollars to the care and feeding of the journalistic army — 15,000 strong this time around — that encamps in the two host cities.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 7, 2012
It offers enemy nuclear missiles no good targets, encamps no unit bigger than a battalion in a single area.
From Time Magazine Archive
When a battalion marches into some remote, Ultima Thulish town and encamps for a few days or months, the soldiers practice shoe making, tinsmithing, weaving, carpentering and all manner of simple crafts.
From Time Magazine Archive
It passes the great caravan once every two or three days, and then encamps till the latter comes up, when they supply the Pasha's suite with provisions.
From Travels in Syria and the Holy Land by Burckhardt, John Lewis
He encamps here, on the Heights, head-quarter Pulsnitz,—till Quintus come up with the baggage, which he does punctually, but not till nightfall, not till midnight the last of him.
From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 20 by Carlyle, Thomas
Exeter had Woodburn yellow-carded for a deliberate knock-on five minutes later as Leicester encamped themselves deep in the visitors' red zone.
From BBC ● May 31, 2026
One executive still firmly encamped at Apple is Cook.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 5, 2025
They listened to their encamped students and agreed to some of their demands.
From Salon ● May 23, 2024
“Overnight camping in University parking lots creates unsanitary and unsafe conditions for both those encamped and for our campus community at large,” the email said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 26, 2023
Dulwich, Massachusetts May iyth, 1775 My dear Fruition — Earlier this Week, a Day of Marching in the Rain hath brought us to Dulwich, where we is encamped upon the Green.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson
Arriving at Martinsburg, two companies were stationed in a church, the others encamping near the town.
From Campaign of the Fourteenth Regiment New Jersey Volunteers by Terrill, J. Newton
But the Egyptians pursued after them, all the horses and chariots of Pharaoh, and his horsemen, and his army, and overtook them, encamping by the sea, beside Pi-hahiroth, before Baal-zephon.
From The Assembly of God Miscellaneous Writings of C. H. Mackintosh, volume III by Mackintosh, C. (Charles) H. (Henry)
Horses the valleys are tramping on, Sleek from the Sassenach manger; Creaghts the hills are encamping on, Empty the bawns of the stranger!
From Donahoe's Magazine, Volume XV, No. 3 Volume XV (Jan 1886-Jul 1886) by Various
Finally a move was made to the southern side of Lake Ontario, the army encamping at the mouth of what is now known as the Salmon River, a little east of Oswego.
From Count Frontenac Makers of Canada, Volume 3 by LeSueur, William Dawson
The column had advanced the evening previous until near the enemy, countermarching and encamping for the night.
From Campaign of the Fourteenth Regiment New Jersey Volunteers by Terrill, J. Newton
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