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verb

Decamp v. i. (past & past part. decamped; pres. part. decamping)

To break up a camp; to move away from a camping ground, usually by night or secretly.

Hence, to depart suddenly; to run away; generally used disparagingly. "The fathers were ordered to decamp, and the house was once again converted into a tavern."

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Etymology of 'Decamp'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Decamp" Quotes from Famous Books

... are drawn hither, as in London, to shelter in a crowd, and the easier in that crowd to pursue their game. Some of them fortunately catch, from example, the arts of industry, and become useful: others continue to cheat for one or two years, till frightened by the grim aspect of justice, they decamp. ...

— An History of Birmingham (1783) • William Hutton

... deemed unlucky. In general, however, they prefer new land to old, and having still abundance of unbroken forest around them, they are in constant movement, more especially as, should they find a new spot prove unfertile, they decamp after the first harvest is ...

— The Ethnology of the British Colonies and Dependencies • Robert Gordon Latham

... the first person who has crossed the Atlantic, as you would have me infer. At all events, he is a sneak and a coward to stay in my house more than two weeks, and decamp just before I ...

— Hubert's Wife - A Story for You • Minnie Mary Lee

... were laden with the raw material for breakfast. The correspondent looked keenly among the students, for it was plain that they had been talking of him. It, filled him with rage, and for a stifling moment he could not think why he failed to immediately decamp in chagrin and leave eleven orphans to whatever fate. their general incompetence might lead them. It struck him as a deep shame that even then he and his paid man were carrying in the breakfast. He wanted to fling it all on the floor ...

— Active Service • Stephen Crane

... provide for a daughter L300 a year by putting L10,000 in the hands of two trustees in the funds. Should the trustees prove rascals, sell the stock, and decamp with the money, my daughter will lose everything; the purchaser from the trustees can hold the stock clear of all charges or liability. But if I provide for my daughter by charging an estate with L300 a year for her, then however ...

— Speculations from Political Economy • C. B. Clarke

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