decamp
UK/diːˈkæmp/
decamp verb: to break camp and move on.
Verb
decamp (third-person singular simple present decamps, present participle decamping, simple past and past participle decamped)
- To break camp and move on.
- To disappear suddenly and secretly.
- 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...2019 June 8, Kitty Empire, “Madonna: Madame X review – a splendidly bizarre return to form”, in The Guardian
- Though unusual in the Dublin area he knew that it was not by any means unknown for desperadoes who had next to nothing to live on to be abroad waylaying and generally terrorising peaceable pedestrians by placing a pistol at their head in some secluded spot outside the city proper, famished...1922 February 2, James Joyce, “[Episode 16]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC
- To debark, to disembark.
- 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.2019 April 18, Kenn Gordon, The Return of Seven, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN
- 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[…]2011 May 14, Ann Timonin, Peter Timonin, Chinese Characters, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, page 161
Proper noun capitalized: DeCamp
DeCamp (plural DeCamps)
- A surname
decamp meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Malayalam and Kannada
decamp in Tamil
- திடீர் மறைதல்
decamp in Urdu
- بھاگ جانا, چل دینا, غائب ہو جانا
decamp in Malayalam
- പാളയം വിട്ടുപോകുക, ആരുമറിയാതെ പൊയ്ക്കളയുക, പെട്ടെന്ന് കടന്നുകളയുക
decamp in Kannada
- ಓಡಿಹೋಗು, ತಲೆಮರೆಸಿ ಕೊಳ್ಳು
Examples of decamp in a sentence
- 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.2019 June 8, Kitty Empire, “Madonna: Madame X review – a splendidly bizarre return to form”, in The Guardian:
- 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.2021 July 22, E.J. Kahn, Jr., Jock: The Life and Times of John Hay Whitney, Plunkett Lake Press:
Synonyms of decamp
Forms of decamp
| Verb | |
|---|---|
| third-person singular present | decamps |
| present participle | decamping |
| past participle | decamped |
| past | decamped |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | DeCamps |
Origin of decamp
* French décamper, Old French descamper.
Words formed from decamp
Words that rhyme with decamp
Questions about decamp
- What does decamp mean?
- Decamp means to break camp and move on.
- What is decamp in Tamil?
- Decamp in Tamil is திடீர் மறைதல். See Decamp meaning in Tamil.
- How do you use decamp in a sentence?
- 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.
- What part of speech is decamp?
- Decamp can be a verb or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce decamp?
- Decamp is pronounced /diːˈkæmp/ (UK).
- What is the past tense of decamp?
- The past tense of decamp is decamped.
Words near decamp in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: decamp (page history and authors); DeCamp (page history and authors); decamp (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); decamp (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); decamp (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); decamp (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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