encamp
Americanverb (used without object)
verb
Other Word Forms
Derived Forms
Conjugated Forms
Present
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has encampedperfect 3rd person singular
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have encampedperfect
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have been encampingperfect progressive
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has been encampingperfect progressive 3rd person singular
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encampingparticiple
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are encampingprogressive
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is encampingprogressive 3rd person singular
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encampssingular 3rd person
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am encampingprogressive 1st person singular
Past
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had encampedperfect
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encampedparticiple
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were encampingprogressive plural
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had been encampingperfect progressive
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was encampingprogressive singular
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encampedsimple
Future
Etymology
Origin of encamp
Vocabulary lists containing encamp
Example Sentences
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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
Once he berated some refugees who gathered on his lawn in an unruly plea for relief; then he let them encamp under his window.
From Time Magazine Archive
In the lower portions, the mud was so deep that it took ten hours to go ten miles, and the company was compelled to encamp in the woods when but half-way across.
From Stanley's Adventures in the Wilds of Africa A Graphic Account of the Several Expeditions of Henry M. Stanley into the Heart of the Dark Continent by Headley, Joel Tyler
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