Decamp

Definitions: Decamp

Decamp

Verb

1. Leave a camp; "The hikers decamped before dawn".

2. Run away; usually includes taking something or somebody along.

3. Leave suddenly (very informal usage); "She persuaded him to decamp"; "skip town".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "decamp" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1840. (references)

Literature

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Decamp

Avoidance

Beat a retreat; turn tail, turn one's back; take to one's heels; runaway, run for one's life; cut and run; be off like a shot; fly, flee; fly away, flee away, run away from; take flight, take to flight; desert, elope; make off, scamper off, sneak off, shuffle off, sheer off; break away, tear oneself away, slip away, slink away, steel away, make away from, scamper away from, sneak away from, shuffle away from, sheer away from; slip cable, part company, turn one's heel; sneak out of, play truant, give one the go by, give leg bail, take French leave, slope, decamp, flit, bolt, abscond, levant, skedaddle, absquatulate, cut one's stick, walk one's chalks, show a light pair of heels, make oneself scarce; escape; go away; (depart); abandon; reject.

Departure

Leave a place, quit, vacate, evacuate, abandon; go off the stage, make one's exit; retire, withdraw, remove; vamoose, vamose; go one's way, go along, go from home; take flight, take wing; spring, fly, flit, wing one's flight; fly away, whip away; embark; go on board, go aboard; set sail' put to sea, go to sea; sail, take ship; hoist blue Peter; get under way, weigh anchor; strike tents, decamp; walk one's chalks, cut one's stick; take leave; say good bye, bid goodbye; Noun: disappear; abscond; (avoid); entrain; inspan.

Crosswords: Decamp

Books

• Rosemary DeCamp : Tigers in My Lap (reference)

  (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Albanian

ua mbath këmbëve, nisem nga kampi, arratisem (break, break out, elope, escape, evade, run off, scat, scoot, sling one's hook, take away, take flight). (various references)

Arabic 

‏فر (abscond, bolt, break away, elope, escape, flee, flight, fly, get away, get free, get off, run away, run off, slope, take flight, take to one's heels), ‏تحمل (afford, bear, bear up, bearing, defray, endure, firmness, have smb. over, hold out, incur, last, lump it, mizzle, pocket, put up with, see, stand, stick, stick it out, stomach, suffer, support, sustain, tighten, tolerate, undergo), ‏طوى الخيام, ‏إرتحل فجأة. (various references)

Bulgarian 

вдигам лагер, офейквам (abscond, bunk, cut, cut away, cut one's lucky, give leg-bail, hop off, leg it, make off, nip off, run off, scamper, scarper, scoot, scuttle off, skedaddle, skip, sling one's hook, slope, take to one's heel, vamoose). (various references)

Czech

zmizet (clear, clear off, come off, come out, disappear, drop out, make off, push off, vanish), zdvihnout tábor, vzít roha (do a bunk), vytratit se (slip away, slope off, steal away), odtáhnout z ležení. (various references)

French

décamper, lever le camp. (various references)

German

das weite suchen. (various references)

Greek 

φεύγω εσπευσμένα, αφήνω στρατόπεδο, διαλύω στρατόπεδο. (various references)

Hebrew 

ל�"סתלק בחשאי (abscond, flit). (various references)

Hungarian

tábort bont (to break camp, to break up a camp, to decamp, to strike a camp), felszedi a sátorfáját (to absquatulate, to cut one's stick, to decamp, to light out, to mosey). (various references)

Indonesian

membongkar kemah, melarikan diri (flee, run away), kabur (bleary, blurred, bolt (of a horse), elope, elopment, fading, flee, fuzzy, run off, unclear). (various references)

Italian

levare le tende. (various references)

Pig Latin

ecampday.(various references)

Portuguese

decampar, levantar o acampamento, fugir (abscond, bolt, break away, bunk, disjoin, dispersion, dodge, eloquence, elude, escape, flee, fleece, fleet, get away, get back at, Lam, make off, retreat, run, run away, scoot, up and away). (various references)

Romanian

dispãrea (abscond, clear, die, disappear, dissolve, do a guy, drop off, evanesce, evaporate, fade away, flee, fly, get out of sight, go out of sight, pass away, peter out, vanish), ridica tabãra, pleca pe furiş (slink away, slink off, steal away), o tuli la fugã, fugi în tainã, şterge (abrade, annex, annihilate, annul, blot out, bunk, cancel, clean, cop, crib, deface, delete, dim, do a bunk, dry, dull, efface, erase, expunge, filch, guy, make away, make off, mop, obliterate, pack off, pack one's traps, pop off, quit, raze, remove, scratch, shrink away, strike out, sweep, vanish, wipe). (various references)

Russian 

сниматься с лагеря (break camp). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

napustiti logor. (various references)

Spanish

decampar. (various references)

Swedish

bryta upp (breake up, force, start, start off). (various references)

Turkish

sıvışmak (do a bunk, duck, fade, flee, get away, hook it, light out, make off, make tracks, nip off, scram, sheer off, shift away, sidle away, skedaddle, skin out, skip it, slide, slink off, sneak out of, take french leave, take wing), kampı bozup ayrılmak, kaçmak (abscond, blow, bolt, break, break away, bunk, clear off, defect, desert, elope, escape, fade, flee, fly, fly away, get away, go by, hook it, ladder, Lam, lapse, leg it, light out, make a bolt for it, make off, nip off, pack up, pull out, retreat, run, run away, run off, scamper away, scoot, scuttle, skip, skip it, skip out, slip, slip off, slope off, take flight, travel, walk off), ayrılmak (apostatize, be off, be through with, break away, break up, break with, check out, come unstuck, cut loose, defect, depart, desert, deviate, disunite, divaricate, diverge, divide, divorce, divorce from, draw apart, draw away, drop out, fork, furcate, get clear of, get off, give up, graduate, hive off, lead away from, leave, mosey, move off, part, part company, part company with, part from, part with, pull away, pull out, quit, retire, revolt, revolt from, secede, segregate, separate, sever, splinter off, split, split off, split up, stray, sunder, take one's farewell of, tear oneself away, unstuck, vacate, walk off, walk out, walk out of, withdraw). (various references)

Ukranian 

сховатися (elope, ensconce, refuge), втекти, виступати з табору, зніматися з табору, зникнути (bundle out, cease, perish, shift away). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "decamp": decamped, decamping, decampment, decampments, decamps. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Decamp" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: decan, decape, decarp, deccan, decem, Decmpp, d'ecran, Degarmo, Dekom, Delcamp, Deschamp, Devcom, Dinampa, Diocalm, Fecamp, reclamp. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: camped.

-1 letter: caped, maced, paced.

-2 letters: aced, acme, aped, cade, came, camp, cape, dace, dame, damp, mace, made, mead, pace.

-3 letters: ace, amp, ape, cad, cam, cap, cep, dam, dap, mac, mad, mae, map, med, pac, pad, pam, pea, pec, ped.

-4 letters: ad, ae, am, de, ed, em, ma, me, pa, pe.

+1 letter: champed, clamped, cramped, decamps, scamped.

+2 letters: campused, compadre, compared, decamped, emplaced, encamped, impacted, midspace, pandemic.

+3 letters: compacted, compadres, companied, comparted, compassed, compendia, decamping, impeached, impedance, midspaces, misplaced, misspaced, mudcapped, pachyderm, pandemics, paramedic, scampered, unclamped.

+4 letters: camelopard, campaigned, championed, complained, compradore, decampment, epicardium, epidemical, humpbacked, impedances, implicated, imprecated, madreporic, mispatched, pachyderms, paramedics, pockmarked, premedical, proclaimed.

+5 letters: accompanied, camelopards, camphorated, companioned, compensated, complicated, compradores, comradeship, decampments, demographic, dimercaprol, diplomacies, emancipated, encompassed, endoplasmic, mispackaged, paramedical, pericardium, predicament, proctodaeum, spermicidal.

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