decamp
verb (used without object)
to depart from a camp; to pack up equipment and leave a camping ground.
were decamping
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past progressiveof decamp.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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Groq’s staff learned that their CEO and other top leaders were decamping for the chip giant on Christmas Eve.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 24, 2026
Some no longer counted on training their dogs in Anchorage, because it was too warm, but were decamping for Fairbanks or even lower 48 states such as Idaho.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 24, 2016
By the early 20th century, Gilded Age arrivistes were decamping to Woodlawn in the Bronx, which had been built in 1863, 25 years after Green-Wood, making it in some sense seem passé.
From New York Times ● Oct. 30, 2015
