DECAMPING Synonyms: 75 Similar and Opposite Words

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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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Noun

Kevin De Bruyne’s departure in summer 2025, Bernardo Silva’s this off-season and questions over Rodri’s future mean City need to rebuild the most important part of their creaking winning machine.

— Cerys Jones, New York Times, 24 July 2026
Back on the calendar with presentations are Leonard, which has not yet announced a creative director following the departure of Georg Lux in December; Chinese label Didu, and fashion veteran Xuly Bët.

— Lily Templeton, Footwear News, 24 July 2026

Definition of departure

Verb

But no such rules exist to prevent AI agents from similarly escaping – even though the consequences could be catastrophic.

— Hadas Gold, CNN Money, 23 July 2026
That fear came to a head when Crowley had her captured and her dad had to come find her after deftly escaping prison.

— Hedy Phillips, PEOPLE, 23 July 2026

Definition of escaping

Verb

Magnus accuses Lestat of giving the players in the theatre meaning before absconding with it, and Gabriella responds that the place ran for a century and a half.

— Sabrina Reed, Forbes.com, 20 July 2026
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

Definition of absconding

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For many actors, getting into character isn’t as big of a problem as getting out of one.

— Bethy Squires, Vulture, 22 July 2026
Most of the first episode gives us Lucky on the run, getting out of the hotel and out of Vegas, and across the tops of a field of big rigs.

— Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 15 July 2026

Definition of getting out

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But Americans want to know that colleges are responding with urgency to the crisis in our public life, not retreating from it.

— Rajiv Vinnakota, Forbes.com, 20 July 2026
In the second World Cup semifinal, England struck first, taking a 1-0 lead early in the second half and then retreating into a defensive shell.

— David Hickey, NBC news, 16 July 2026

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