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Webster 1913 Edition


Decamp

De-camp′

,
Verb.
I.
[
imp. & p. p.
Decamped
(?; 215)
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Decamping
.]
[F.
décamper
; pref.
dé-
(L.
dis
) +
camp
camp. See
Camp
.]
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.
To remove or depart from a camp; to march off; as, the army decamped at six o'clock.

DECAMP'

MENT,
Noun.
Departure from a camp; a marching off.
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)

  1. (intransitive) To break up camp and move on.
  2. (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.

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