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Webster 1913 Edition
Decamp
De-camp′
,Verb.
I.
[
imp. & p. p.
Decamped
(?; 215)
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Decamping
.] 1.
To break up a camp; to move away from a camping ground, usually by night or secretly.
Macaulay.
2.
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. Goldsmith.
Webster 1828 Edition
Decamp
DECAMP'
,Verb.
I.
DECAMP'
MENT,Noun.
DEC'ANAL, a. Pertaining to a deanery.
DECAN'DER, n. [Gr., ten and a male.] In botany, a plant having ten stamens.
Definition 2024
decamp
decamp
English
Verb
decamp (third-person singular simple present decamps, present participle decamping, simple past and past participle decamped)
- (intransitive) To break up camp and move on.
- (intransitive) To disappear suddenly and secretly.
- 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses, Episode 16
- 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.
- 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses, Episode 16