She took the papers and decamped.
He decamped to Europe soon after news of the scandal broke.
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Tesla has struggled in 2025, with CEO Elon Musk decamping to DC to temporarily head up the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).—James Peckham, PC Magazine, 13 June 2025 Michaels appears occasionally in the memoir — the two became friends in the ’70s, when the SNL cast would decamp to aftershow parties at One Fifth, where McNally, newly arrived from England, was working as maître d’.—Benjamin Svetkey, HollywoodReporter, 3 June 2025 O’Donnell, who has traded public jibes with Trump for almost two decades, decamped to Ireland in January with her non-binary child, and is seeking citizenship based on her ancestry.—Anna Cooban, CNN Money, 3 June 2025 After becoming fascinated with the criminal couple’s Depression-era story, Benton and Newman decamped to the heartland to interview people who knew them and get a sense of what the film might be.—Tom Tapp, Deadline, 13 May 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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