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
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
They are to assemble without loss of time, and to encamp on Staten Island, under Major Campbell, of the 42d....
From The Conspiracy of Pontiac and the Indian War after the Conquest of Canada by Parkman, Francis
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
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 offers enemy nuclear missiles no good targets, encamps no unit bigger than a battalion in a single area.
From Time Magazine Archive
Friedrich encamps for the night; expecting an attack.
From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 20 by Carlyle, Thomas
That is Dauphiness's posture while Friedrich encamps at Lutzen:—let impatient human nature fix these three places for itself, and hasten to the catastrophe of wretched Dauphiness.
From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 18 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
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
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
Eight hundred and forty strong, the regiment occupied a large space of ground, encamping in five lines, two companies in one line, or, as was called, regimental divisions.
From Campaign of the Fourteenth Regiment New Jersey Volunteers by Terrill, J. Newton
On the first occasion Ala-ud-din defeated them under the walls of his capital; on the second, after encamping for two months in the neighbourhood of the city, they retired without a battle.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 10 "David, St" to "Demidov" by Various
The Regiment encamping on a hill near a battery, arms were stacked, the men prepared their evening meal.
From Campaign of the Fourteenth Regiment New Jersey Volunteers by Terrill, J. Newton
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
Leaving Woodstock on the afternoon of the 23d, the troops marched six miles, passing the village of Edenburg, and encamping in woods near the railroad.
From Campaign of the Fourteenth Regiment New Jersey Volunteers by Terrill, J. Newton
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