She took the papers and decamped.
He decamped to Europe soon after news of the scandal broke.
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After one more year in Park City, Utah, the festival will decamp further east, picking up stakes for Boulder, Colorado.—Christian Zilko, IndieWire, 10 Dec. 2025 The biggest fete on Hollywood’s biggest night is decamping from the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in Beverly Hills for the Fairfax-area environs of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.—Tom Tapp, Deadline, 10 Dec. 2025 After New York and the journalist parted ways, Nuzzi decamped to the West Coast.—Katie Kilkenny, HollywoodReporter, 5 Dec. 2025 Ott says that’s why many of his friends and peers—people who could easily decamp to Dubai or Montenegro—are deliberately staying put.—Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 25 Nov. 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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