verb
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- unencamped adjective
Etymology
Origin of encamp
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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
Olivier opens it with a crepuscular shot of the doomed and exhausted English as they withdraw along a sunset stream to encamp for the night.
From Time Magazine Archive
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As we prepared to encamp, we observed the ashes of a fire, the footprints of men and horses, and other indications that a party had been upon the spot not many days before.
From The Conspiracy of Pontiac and the Indian War after the Conquest of Canada by Parkman, Francis
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