Pronunciations (2)
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/diːˈkæmp/
Pronunciation notes
- UK
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diːˈkæmp
Pronunciation notes
- GB
Verb
To break camp and move on.
Usage- Intransitive
To disappear suddenly and secretly.
Usage- Intransitive
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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.
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.
To debark, to disembark.
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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.
It required much honking of horns (not only the bus's), several passengers decamping like rats leaving a sinking ship, and much waiting around while a large truck trying to negotiate the same alley found room to back up[…]
That vehicle was incapacitated when, during a strafing attack by American planes, its driver neglected to set its brakes before decamping, and the bus crashed into a stone wall. Whitney spent the next three nights in a windowless cellar[…]
Verb
leave a camp
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The hikers decamped before dawn
run away; usually includes taking something or somebody along
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The thief made off with our silver
the accountant absconded with the cash from the safe
leave suddenly
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She persuaded him to decamp
skip town