decamp

decamp

English

Etymology

• French décamper, Old French descamper.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /diːˈkæmp/
• Rhymes: -æmp

Verb

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

1. (intransitive) To break up camp and move on.
2. (intransitive) To disappear suddenly and secretly.
   • 2019 June 8, Kitty Empire, “Madonna: Madame X review – a splendidly bizarre return to form”, in The Guardian‎:

     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.

   • 1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 16]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], OCLC 560090630:

     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 loiterers of the Thames embankment category they might be hanging about there or simply marauders ready to decamp with whatever boodle they could in one fell swoop at a moment's notice, your money or your life, leaving you there to point a moral, gagged and garrotted.

Synonyms

• abscond
• absquatulate

Translations

break up camp and move on

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Anagrams

• camped