decamping 1 of 2

noun

as in departure
the act of leaving a place the mass decamping for the mountains or the shore by city dwellers that occurs every summer weekend

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decamping

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verb

present participle of decamp
as in escaping

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for decamping
  1. departure
  2. escaping
  3. going
  4. absconding
  5. leave
  6. getting out
  7. retreating
Noun
  • If time permits, lock your home upon departure and disconnect utilities and appliances.
    — CA Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 11 July 2026
  • Despite high-profile billionaire departures and complaints about costs, California is pulling in more than $335 billion in venture capital — about ten times New York — fueled by an AI boom.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 10 July 2026
Definition of departure
Verb
  • Some tea strainers feature a mesh casing, which is the best option for preventing small particles from escaping the infuser and winding up in your drink.
    — BestReviews, Chicago Tribune, 9 July 2026
  • New research, however, suggests our planet has a better chance of escaping that fiery end than previously thought.
    — Sharmila Kuthunur, Space.com, 8 July 2026
Definition of escaping
Noun
  • Gold Tables may begin with regular diners, but the larger opportunity is to make restaurant-going feel more habitual, more social and more connected to the OpenTable ecosystem.
    — Jeff Fromm, Forbes.com, 8 July 2026
  • Micron, Marvell Technology and Intel were all down between 4% and 6% in the early going.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 7 July 2026
Definition of going
Verb
  • Police are searching for a straphanger suspected of unbolting a door switch from a inside a downtown C train Monday evening, snipping the wires and then absconding with the train part, sources tell the Daily News.
    — Evan Simko-Bednarski, New York Daily News, 14 May 2026
  • For the last couple of years at least, groups of international thieves have been traveling to Southern California and burglarizing homes and stores before absconding back to their home countries.
    — Fedor Zarkhin, Los Angeles Times, 12 May 2026
Definition of absconding
Noun
  • She will also be compensated for 20 unused vacation days and 15 personal leave days.
    — Lina Ruiz, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 15 July 2026
  • Wilting when soil moisture seems adequate, browning brittle leaves, and stunted growth can all be signs of too much fertilizer.
    — Andy Wilcox, Better Homes & Gardens, 14 July 2026
Definition of leave
Verb
  • The reason for that may be due to money just moving from one part of the stock market to another, rather than investors getting out entirely.
    — Fred Imbert, CNBC, 7 July 2026
  • Cendejas said Wahab needs to focus her time on getting out to voters in the district while the state Legislature is in recess between July and August.
    — Kyle Martin, Mercury News, 24 June 2026
Definition of getting out
Verb
  • Cardinal and Lilly also set fresh record closes last week, before retreating modestly, as J & J has, in recent sessions.
    — Natasha Abellard, CNBC, 14 July 2026
  • And larger investors were already retreating from the single-family market.
    — Samantha Delouya, CNN Money, 11 July 2026
Definition of retreating
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