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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Conjugated Forms
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
Olivier opens it with a crepuscular shot of the doomed and exhausted English as they withdraw along a sunset stream to encamp for the night.
From Time Magazine Archive
They try, if possible, to find some well by which they can encamp, and every man fills his own skins with water before starting afresh on his journey.
From The Animal Story Book by Various
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
Several hamlets appear scattered about, which are comprised in the general name of Kholeys; the largest is called Es-Souk, or the market- place, near which the Hadj encamps.
From Travels in Arabia; comprehending an account of those territories in Hedjaz which the Mohammedans regard as sacred by John Lewis Burckhardt
Unshaven and unshorn since he left Rome last, he joins Cinna, leading six thousand fugitives, seizes and plunders the towns about Rome, while Cinna encamps beneath the walls.
From Ave Roma Immortalis, Vol. 1 Studies from the Chronicles of Rome by F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford
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
Large crowds had rallied with the encamped protesters overnight, and hundreds more convened in front of Butler Library to call for amnesty for those who had been taken into police custody.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 18, 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
On the 30th of October the troops again moved forward, marching seven miles to Warrenton Junction and encamping near Bealton Station.
From Campaign of the Fourteenth Regiment New Jersey Volunteers by J. Newton Terrill
When dusk had fallen, and all was quiet, the Emperor disembarked, encamping with his troops among the rock-hewn burial places of the ancient Phœnicians, which abounded on that coast.
From The Fairies and the Christmas Child by Lilian Gask
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
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 J. Newton Terrill
Leaving the gap, the division marched that afternoon six miles, joining the Potomac army at night, encamping in a field.
From Campaign of the Fourteenth Regiment New Jersey Volunteers by J. Newton Terrill
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