From en.wiktionary.org:
** English
*** Etymology
- [en] , [en] .
*** Pronunciation
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
*** Verb
[en-verb]
1. [en] To break up camp and move on.
2. [en] To disappear suddenly and secretly .
3. * {{ quote-journal | en | date=June 8, 2019 | author=w:Kitty Empire | title=Madonna: Madame X review – a splendidly bizarre return to form | work=The Guardian | url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/jun/08/madonna-madame-x-review-splendidly-bizarre-return-to-form
|passage=Colombia is a red herring, however. The songs that became Madame X
actually came together during Madonna’s two years in Portugal, where she
DECAMPED in 2017 when her son David enrolled in Benfica’s football academy.
Madonna absorbed the local sounds with more of a mature, simpatico rather than
asset-stripping eye.}}
1. * [chapter=Episode 16]
2. [en] To debark , to disembark .
3. * {{ quote-book | en | date=2019-04-18 | author=Kenn Gordon | title=The Return of Seven | publisher=Xlibris Corporation | isbn=9781984589217
|text=I let the civilian members of our team DECAMP the bus first and then the
main members of Team Seven and finally the hippie from Iceland, Oran! ACT 50 I
noticed an RAF truck at the bottom.}}
1. * {{ quote-book | en | date=2011-05-14 | author=Ann Timonin; Peter Timonin | title=Chinese Characters | publisher=Xlibris Corporation | isbn=9781462860647 | page=161
|text=It required much honking of horns (not only the bus's), several
passengers DECAMPING like rats leaving a sinking ship, and much waiting around
while a large truck trying to negotiate the same alley found room to back
up[nb...]}}
1. * {{ quote-book | en | date=2021-07-22 | author=E.J. Kahn, Jr. | title=Jock: The Life and Times of John Hay Whitney | publisher=Plunkett Lake Press
|text=That vehicle was incapacitated when, during a strafing attack by
American planes, its driver neglected to set its brakes before DECAMPING, and
the bus crashed into a stone wall. Whitney spent the next three nights in a
windowless cellar[nb...]}}
**** Synonyms
- [en]
- [en]
**** Derived terms
{{col|en|decampee|decamper|decampment }}
**** Translations
[break up camp and move on]
- Albanian: [sq]
- Armenian: [hy]
- Chinese:
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Estonian: [et]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Georgian: [ka]
- German: [de] [de] [to deconstruct the camp] , [de] [to depart] , [de]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Latvian: [lv]
- Lithuanian: [lt]
- Polish: [pl] , [pl]
- Romanian: [ro]
- Russian: [ru]
- Slovak: [sk]
- Turkish: [tr]
- Ukrainian: [uk]
[trans-bottom]
[disappear suddenly and secretly]
- Chinese:
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
- French: [fr]
- German: [de] , [de] , [de]
[trans-bottom]
[debark]
- Chinese:
- Finnish: [fi] [+ elative]
- French: [fr]
- German: [de] , [de] , [de]
[trans-bottom]
*** Anagrams
- [en]