as in to abscond
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Recent Examples of decamp
In the earliest stages of A Night at the Opera, Queen decamped to Ridge Farm, an hour outside of London, to get some writing done.
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Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 24 Sep. 2025
After the curtain fell to wild applause, the audience decamped a few blocks away to the Bryant Park Grill, where congratulations and bravos flowed like Champagne.
—Christopher Barnard, Vogue, 17 Sep. 2025
But the screenwriter never left, having decamped from Hollywood for the native Philadelphia suburbs which have essentially become his muse.
—Mikey O'Connell, HollywoodReporter, 8 Sep. 2025
The Domain functions as an expansive outdoor classroom for environmental science courses as professors regularly decamp to hiking trails for their lectures and students learn the different shapes of the leaves while walking beneath them.
—Caroline Rogers, Southern Living, 30 Aug. 2025
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Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 24 Sep. 2025
After the curtain fell to wild applause, the audience decamped a few blocks away to the Bryant Park Grill, where congratulations and bravos flowed like Champagne.
—Christopher Barnard, Vogue, 17 Sep. 2025
But the screenwriter never left, having decamped from Hollywood for the native Philadelphia suburbs which have essentially become his muse.
—Mikey O'Connell, HollywoodReporter, 8 Sep. 2025
The Domain functions as an expansive outdoor classroom for environmental science courses as professors regularly decamp to hiking trails for their lectures and students learn the different shapes of the leaves while walking beneath them.
—Caroline Rogers, Southern Living, 30 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for decamp
Verb
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Authorities booked Smith in the Greene County jail on a warrant for absconding parole while the homicide investigation continues, the release states.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
29 Oct. 2025
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Thieves absconded with jewelry which belonged to French Empress Eugenie from the Louvre museum in Paris, France.—
FOXNews.com,
FOXNews.com,
20 Oct. 2025
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The Epstein story is all about people who are sufficiently rich or entitled escaping the full consequences of their actions, something that is still happening here.—
Helen Lewis,
The Atlantic,
25 Oct. 2025
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Seven years after disappearing from his California home in 1972, 14-year-old Steven Stayner escaped his kidnapper, Kenneth Parnell, and returned to his family in 1980.—
James Mercadante,
PEOPLE,
25 Oct. 2025
Verb
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The two were arguing inside a car and then got out of the car, where the fight escalated, police said.—
KC Baker,
PEOPLE,
31 Oct. 2025
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Toyota Motor Corp President Akio Toyoda gets out of a Tesla Motor’s Roadster electric car with Tesla Motors Chief Exective Officer Elon Musk (behind car) upon their arrival at a news conference in Tokyo November 12, 2010.—
Lora Kolodny,
CNBC,
31 Oct. 2025
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In an extra surprise, Samantha and Austin turned out to be secretly married the entire time, having privately eloped a month ago.—
Ashlyn Robinette,
PEOPLE,
24 Oct. 2025
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In a startling number of instances, women eloped, making their choices before parents could intervene—or even, in Angelica’s case, flying in the face of paternal disapproval.—
Jane Kamensky,
The Atlantic,
10 Oct. 2025
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Zoom in: Privacy and security are big: The house has a private gate and parking so no one has to use the main door, security offices for guests' staff and a bedroom with a secret exit should important visitors need to scram.—
Mimi Montgomery,
Axios,
11 Oct. 2024
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As of now, one man sits on a small dock off each island, telling onlookers to scram.—
Danielle Paquette,
Washington Post,
12 Dec. 2019
Verb
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Taylor Tomlinson will host After Midnight, the show that is replacing The Late Late Show now that James Corden has scarpered off to old Blighty.—
Vulture,
Vulture,
1 Nov. 2023
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Idrissa Gueye has scarpered, but that void was instantly filled by Mainz midfielder Jean-Philippe Gbamin - while Moise Kean, goodness knows how, has signed from Juventus to sharpen things up front.—
SI.com,
SI.com,
5 Aug. 2019
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Four guys, using a cherry picker truck to scale the side of the museum, break through a second-floor window, scoop up to $100 million worth of French crown jewelry and make off with the loot on motor scooters in under 10 minutes.—
Greg Palkot,
FOXNews.com,
24 Oct. 2025
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Police believe that these seven people were connected with a group of more than a dozen robbers who rammed a car into the front of Kim Hung Jewelry on Aborn Road in San Jose on Sept. 5 and made off with a bounty of jewelry, authorities said at a news conference.—
Caelyn Pender,
Mercury News,
3 Oct. 2025
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No studio would finance the feature, about a whorehouse exhibitionist who lams it after being framed for murder — so director Melvin Van Peebles financed it himself with a boost from Bill Cosby, who gave him a $50,000 loan.—
Andrew Lawrence,
Peoplemag,
17 Feb. 2024
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One of those classic films that’s as good as its reputation (and maybe even better), Billy Wilder’s high-spirited comedy stars Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon as jazz musicians who have to lam it after witnessing a mob crime.—
Keith Phipps,
Rolling Stone,
1 May 2023
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“Decamp.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/decamp. Accessed 7 Nov. 2025.
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