encamp
Americanverb (used without object)
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encamps,
present (3rd person singular)
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encamped,
past participle, past
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encamping
present participle
verb
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Present
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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
Past
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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
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
In the Sanayeh Gardens, the public gardens, refugees from bombed-out homes encamp under strange tall trees that bulge at the top.
From Time Magazine Archive
Angels encamp around him in the wilderness of this world.
From Practical Religion Being Plain Papers on the Daily Duties, Experience, Dangers, and Privileges of Professing Christians by John Charles Ryle
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
Camp-meeting, a meeting held in the fields or woods for religious purposes, and where the assemblage encamps and remains several days.
From The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 1 A to Amide by Various
Friedrich encamps for the night; expecting an attack.
From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 20 by Thomas Carlyle
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
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.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2024
They listened to their encamped students and agreed to some of their demands.
From Salon ● May 23, 2024
The second letter didn’t tell so much, except that they were encamped someplace in New Jersey and probably would stay there for the winter.
From "My Brother Sam is Dead" by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier
Sometimes his anxious scrutiny would detect a faint blue smoke stealing upward above the green bosom of the forest, and betraying the encamping place of some lurking war-party.
From The Conspiracy of Pontiac and the Indian War after the Conquest of Canada by Francis Parkman
The troops were compelled to move the next day eighteen miles, encamping near Charlestown, the enemy again halting at Winchester.
From Campaign of the Fourteenth Regiment New Jersey Volunteers by J. Newton Terrill
Not long afterwards the whole host began to assemble below Pesth, encamping on the bank of the Danube; a bridge suddenly sprang into sight, and across it passed army corps, heavy cannons and wagons.
From The Slaves of the Padishah by M?r J?kai
Encamp′ment, the act of encamping: the place where an army or company is encamped: a camp.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various
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 C. (Charles) H. (Henry) Mackintosh
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