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Definition of Decamp
1. Verb. Leave a camp. "The hikers decamped before dawn"
2. Verb. Run away; usually includes taking something or somebody along. "The accountant absconded with the cash from the safe"
Specialized synonyms: Levant
Generic synonyms: Flee, Fly, Take Flight
Derivative terms: Absconder, Abscondment, Bolt, Decampment
3. Verb. Leave suddenly. "Skip town"
Definition of Decamp
1. v. i. To break up a camp; to move away from a camping ground, usually by night or secretly.
Definition of Decamp
1. Verb. (intransitive) To break up camp and move on. ¹
2. Verb. (intransitive) To disappear suddenly and secretly. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Decamp
1. to depart from a camping ground [v -ED, -ING, -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Decamp
Literary usage of Decamp
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Stage, Or, Recollections of Actors and Acting from an Experience of by James Edward Murdoch, J. Bunting (1880)
"Miss DeCamp was born at Vienna on the 17th of January, 1774; her father, George
Louis DeCamp, was a gentleman of considerable estimation as a musician. ..."
2. Athletics at Princeton: A History by James Hugh Moffatt, Frank Presbrey (1901)
"IQ—Touchdown by DeCamp. The team possessed strong material but was weak in ...
12—• Touchdown by DeCamp. On Election Day Princeton played a team ot ..."
3. The Cincinnati Superior Court Reporter by Charles Phelps Taft, Ohio Superior Court (Cincinnati), Bellamy Storer, Peter Rawson Taft (1872)
"JOSEPH decamp v. A. 0. GASKILL ET AL. By contract with G., D. performed work and
later for ... decamp ..."
4. Southern Literary Messenger (1858)
"A test is now before Convention, which will oblige all those to decamp who are
the objects of its rigour. ..."
5. Diary of the American Revolution: From Newspapers and Original Documents by Frank Moore (1860)
"The enemy appear to be preparing to decamp and retire to New York, as they are
much disgusted with their late treatment in New Jersey, and have a great ..."
6. Proceedings of the ... Annual Meeting of the Fire Underwriters Association (1915)
"So spiritually, mentally and physically equipped as to be himself easily a leader
in the various social and business activities of this life, Mr. DeCamp ..."
7. The Ohio Nisi Prius Reports by Ohio Courts (1905)
"DeCamp et al. intention had not in fact existed. The very object for which the
witness was called was to prove that the deed was never delivered, ..."
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