"decamp" meaning in All languages combined

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Verb [English]

IPA: /diːˈkæmp/ [UK] Forms: decamps [present, singular, third-person], decamping [participle, present], decamped [participle, past], decamped [past]
Rhymes: -æmp Etymology: * French décamper, Old French descamper. Etymology templates: {{uder|en|fr|décamper}} French décamper, {{uder|en|fro|descamper}} Old French descamper Head templates: {{en-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. Tags: intransitive Translations (break up camp and move on): purkaa leiri (Finnish), lähteä (Finnish), but see das Lager abbrechen (english: to deconstruct the camp) (German), aufbrechen (english: to depart) (German), zwiewać [imperfective] (Polish), zwiać [perfective] (Polish)
    Sense id: en-decamp-en-verb-dZnSoB9G Disambiguation of 'break up camp and move on': 98 1 2
  2. (intransitive) To disappear suddenly and secretly. Tags: intransitive
    Sense id: en-decamp-en-verb-ssCL2Hm8 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 30 59 11
  3. (perhaps, nonstandard) To debark, to disembark. Tags: nonstandard
    Sense id: en-decamp-en-verb-TgLSJVfu
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: abscond, absquatulate

Inflected forms

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