She took the papers and decamped.
He decamped to Europe soon after news of the scandal broke.
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By 2019, Antonioni needed a break, even if that meant decamping to the Netherlands.—Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 23 Feb. 2025 Already, one important member of the original cast, Sally Hawkins, has decamped.—Brooks Barnes, New York Times, 14 Feb. 2025 After one more year in Park City, Utah, the festival will decamp further east, picking up stakes for Boulder, Colorado.—Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 27 Mar. 2025 Near the Arctic Circle in northern Sweden, many of the world's automakers have testing facilities where their research and development teams decamp to Monday through Friday for weeks on repeat during the winter months.—Faisal Kutty, Newsweek, 11 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for decamp
Word History
Etymology
French décamper, from Middle French descamper, from des- de- + camper to camp
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