encamp

[en-kamp]

verb (used without object)

1. to settle or lodge in a camp.

verb (used with object)

1. to make into a camp.

2. to lodge or place in a camp.

encamp

/ ɪnˈkæmp /

verb

1. to lodge or cause to lodge in a camp

Other Word Forms

• unencamped adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of encamp¹

First recorded in 1540–50; en- ¹ + camp ¹

Example Sentences

Trump now says he will round up millions of immigrants, assign each of them an individual serial number, encamp them in detention centers and simply deport them.

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A movement long defined by shaggy hippies encamped in old-growth redwoods and Indigenous protesters chained to construction equipment was remade in the image of two nonbinary university students wielding cans of tomato soup.

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They listened to their encamped students and agreed to some of their demands.

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At the UW, out of around 50,000 undergraduates and graduate students, only about 200 people are encamped, with an undetermined share of them being outsiders, not students.

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Large crowds had rallied with the encamped protesters overnight, and hundreds more convened in front of Butler Library to call for amnesty for those who had been taken into police custody.

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