Decamp

Quick meaning: Decamp is a verb meaning (intransitive) To break camp and move on.

Meaning

(intransitive) To break camp and move on.

More Meanings

1. (intransitive) To disappear suddenly and secretly.
2. (perhaps nonstandard) To debark, to disembark.

Example Sentences

I let the civilian members of our team decamp the bus first and then the main members of Team Seven and finally the hippie from Iceland, Oran! ACT 50 I noticed an RAF truck at the bottom.

It required much honking of horns (not only the bus's), several passengers decamping like rats leaving a sinking ship, and much waiting around while a large truck trying to negotiate the same alley found room to back up[…]

That vehicle was incapacitated when, during a strafing attack by American planes, its driver neglected to set its brakes before decamping, and the bus crashed into a stone wall. Whitney spent the next three nights in a windowless cellar[…]

Colombia is a red herring, however. The songs that became Madame X actually came together during Madonna’s two years in Portugal, where she decamped in 2017 when her son David enrolled in Benfica’s football academy. Madonna absorbed the local sounds with more of a mature, simpatico rather than asset-stripping eye.

Word Forms

• decamps
• decamping
• decamped

Synonyms for decamp

Depending on context, synonyms include abscond, absquatulate, bolt, vamoose, go off, run off.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include abscond, run off, vamoose, absquatulate, go off, skip.

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