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Decamp

name, verb

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname
Verb
  1. 1
    To break up camp and move on. intransitive
  2. 2
    leave suddenly wordnet
  3. 3
    To disappear suddenly and secretly. intransitive

    "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."

  4. 4
    run away; usually includes taking something or somebody along wordnet
  5. 5
    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."

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  1. 6
    leave a camp wordnet

Etymology

* French décamper, Old French descamper.

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