She took the papers and decamped.
He decamped to Europe soon after news of the scandal broke.
Recent Examples on the WebDozens of Vogue staffers decamped to Paris to coordinate the third installment of Vogue World this June, held on Place Vendôme in the heart of the 1st arrondissement.—Vogue, 12 July 2024 In the wake of her first solo exhibition, at Chicago’s Sam Bordelon Gallery in 1948, Leaf decamped for Paris in hopes of discovering patterns in her work.—News Desk, Artforum, 3 July 2024 According to a recent Agriculture Department estimate, the rural population did rebound by 0.25 percent from 2020 to 2022 as some families decamped from urban areas during the pandemic.—Tim Craig, Washington Post, 23 June 2024 One of the guys that decamped after the 2019 debacle was Irving, who brought his emotional baggage with him to the Brooklyn Nets.—Rich Thompson, Hartford Courant, 3 June 2024 See all Example Sentences for decamp
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Word History
Etymology
French décamper, from Middle French descamper, from des- de- + camper to camp
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