decamping

Verb

decamp (third-person singular simple present decamps, present participle decamping, simple past and past participle decamped)

1. (intransitive) To break camp and move on.
2. (intransitive) 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
3. (perhaps nonstandard) 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

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