decamp
verb (used without object)
to depart from a camp; to pack up equipment and leave a camping ground.
had decamped
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past perfectof decamp.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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Administration officials would not immediately confirm whether the troops had decamped.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 15, 2025
Days before the attack, however, they had decamped to a short-term rental in Campsie - about 30 minutes closer to the beach, media reports said.
From BBC ● Dec. 15, 2025
Danny described what he'd remembered — how, when I was three, my mother and I had decamped from our home in Jersey City to his in a quaint Boston suburb.
From Salon ● Oct. 15, 2024
He was the first Northern Virginian to become governor since Robert E. Lee’s nephew, Fitzhugh Lee, won 96 years earlier, though he had decamped for Stafford County by then.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 23, 2021
Brady had decamped for his own wedding and his new post in St. Louis; Cooksey and Kurie had returned East.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
