decamp
verb (used without object)
to depart from a camp; to pack up equipment and leave a camping ground.
has decamped
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present perfectof decamp (3rd person singular).present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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For the UK mission, the team has decamped to Cornwall to set up a new mission control.
From BBC ● Jan. 9, 2023
After spending the last four months at his Mar-a-Lago club in Florida plotting his next steps and building out a political operation, Trump has decamped to Bedminster, New Jersey, for the summer.
From Seattle Times ● May 12, 2021
Since 2007, he has decamped to his getaway home, an antique of a house built for a local sea captain in 1789.
From New York Times ● Sep. 27, 2019
But in the present day there is trouble, and Smiley has decamped for parts unknown, leaving Guillam to face the music alone when he is summoned to MI6’s shockingly ostentatious new headquarters along the Thames.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2017
When the Halictus comes back from the fields, the Gnat has decamped.
From Bramble-Bees and Others by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos
