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单词 decamp
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decampv.

/dɪˈkamp/
Etymology: < French décamper, earlier descamper (Cotgrave 1611); < des- , dé- (see de- prefix 1f) + camp . Compare Italian scampare = discampare , discamp v.
1.
a. intransitive (Military). To break up a camp; to remove from a place of encampment. Hence, said of other bodies or parties leaving a camping-place.
ΘΚΠ
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabiting temporarily > camping or encamping > camp or encamp [verb (intransitive)] > break up camp
discamp1575
to pull up one's stumps1647
decamp1678
1678 E. Phillips New World of Words (new ed.) To Decamp, a term now grown much into use in Military Affairs, and signifies to rise from the present place of Incampment, in order to a removing and incamping in another place.
1692 Siege Lymerick 2 Here we incamp'd, and lay till the 14th, on which day we decamp'd.
a1698 [see sense 1b].
1725 D. Defoe New Voy. round World ii. 152 The Spaniard's Gentleman caused them to decamp, and march Two Days farther into the Mountains, and then they encamped again.
1803 Duke of Wellington in Marquess Wellesley Select. Despatches (1877) 408 We found on our arrival that the armies of both chiefs had decamped.
1868 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest (1876) II. viii. 290 The Count and his host had decamped.
b. Const. from, etc.
ΚΠ
1695 R. Blackmore Prince Arthur vi. 170 Decamping hence, his arm'd Battalions gain..the fertile Plain.
a1698 W. Row Suppl. in R. Blair Life (1848) (modernized text) x. 161 That powder had been laid there the year before, when the army decamped from Dunse-law.
1836 W. Irving Astoria III. 97 They were fain to decamp from their inhospitable bivouac before the dawn.
2. To go away promptly or suddenly; to make off at once, take oneself off: often said of criminals and persons eluding the officers of the law.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > go away [verb (intransitive)] > go away suddenly or hastily
fleec825
runOE
swervea1225
biwevec1275
skip1338
streekc1380
warpa1400
yerna1400
smoltc1400
stepc1460
to flee (one's) touch?1515
skirr1548
rubc1550
to make awaya1566
lope1575
scuddle1577
scoura1592
to take the start1600
to walk off1604
to break awaya1616
to make off1652
to fly off1667
scuttle1681
whew1684
scamper1687
whistle off1689
brush1699
to buy a brush1699
to take (its, etc.) wing1704
decamp1751
to take (a) French leave1751
morris1765
to rush off1794
to hop the twig1797
to run along1803
scoot1805
to take off1815
speela1818
to cut (also make, take) one's lucky1821
to make (take) tracks (for)1824
absquatulize1829
mosey1829
absquatulate1830
put1834
streak1834
vamoose1834
to put out1835
cut1836
stump it1841
scratch1843
scarper1846
to vamoose the ranch1847
hook1851
shoo1851
slide1859
to cut and run1861
get1861
skedaddle1862
bolt1864
cheese it1866
to do a bunkc1870
to wake snakes1872
bunk1877
nit1882
to pull one's freight1884
fooster1892
to get the (also to) hell out (of)1892
smoke1893
mooch1899
to fly the coop1901
skyhoot1901
shemozzle1902
to light a shuck1905
to beat it1906
pooter1907
to take a run-out powder1909
blow1912
to buzz off1914
to hop it1914
skate1915
beetle1919
scram1928
amscray1931
boogie1940
skidoo1949
bug1950
do a flit1952
to do a scarper1958
to hit, split or take the breeze1959
to do a runner1980
to be (also get, go) ghost1986
society > travel > aspects of travel > departure, leaving, or going away > depart, leave, or go away [verb (intransitive)] > hastily or suddenly
fleec825
warpa1400
wringc1400
bolt1575
decamp1751
mog1770
to hop the twig1797
to take (its, etc.) wing1806
to make (take) tracks (for)1824
vamoose1834
fade1848
skedaddle1862
to beat it1906
blow1912
to hop it1914
beetle1919
bug1950
jet1951
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > go away [verb (intransitive)] > go away suddenly or hastily > secretly or abscond
to run awayOE
elope1596
to step aside1620
abscond1652
shirk1681
decamp1751
levant1797
absconce1823
skip1865
skin1871
to shoot the crow1887
sneak1896
to go through1933
to take a run-out powder1933
1751 T. Smollett Peregrine Pickle IV. cxii. 293 [He] ordered them [footmen] to decamp without further preparation.
1764 L. Sterne Let. 29 Sept. in Lett. 1739–64 (2009) 387 Christmas, at which time I decamp from hence and fix my head quarters at London.
1792 Gentleman's Mag. 17/2 Probably the rascal is decamped; and where is your remedy?
1828 I. D'Israeli Comm. Life Charles I I. iv. 76 An idle report that Prince Charles designed to decamp secretly from Spain.
1885 Manch. Examiner 29 June 5/2 The murderer had decamped, and taken with him 2,000 francs.
figurative.1806 J. Beresford Miseries Human Life (ed. 4) ix. 187 Finding, as you sit down to an excellent dinner, that your appetite has secretly decamped.1871 D. G. Rossetti Jenny in Poems 310 So on the wings of day decamps My last night's frolic.
3. transitive. To cause to break up a camp. rare.
ΘΚΠ
society > armed hostility > military organization > logistics > quartering > quarter (troops) [verb (transitive)] > encamp > cause to break camp
discamp1574
decamp1684
1684 Scanderbeg Redivivus v. 120 The next day decampt his whole Army and followed them.
1733 J. Millner Compend. Jrnl. 202 The Duke decamp'd our Army from Nivelle.
4. To camp. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabiting temporarily > camping or encamping > camp or encamp [verb (intransitive)]
wickc897
lodge13..
telda1325
pitch1535
camp1611
to set downa1616
decamp1698
encamp1725
to camp out1748
outspan1801
tent1856
laager1879
tarpaulin1891
1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia 42 They..being beaten from their Works near the City, had decamped Seven Miles off St. Thomas.
1745 R. Pococke Descr. East II. ii. ii. 120 It leads to a plain spot on the side of the hill where the Urukes were decamping.

Derivatives

deˈcamped adj.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > [adjective] > running away > having run away
fugitive1467
forloppin?a1513
runaway1548
runagate1653
absconded1735
decamped1887
1887 Pall Mall Gaz. 14 Nov. 12/1 To inquire into the doings of the decamped bankrupt..and his associates.
deˈcamping n.
ΘΚΠ
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabiting temporarily > camping or encamping > [noun] > leaving encampment
discamping1579
decamping1689
decampment1706
1689 N. Luttrell Diary in Brief Hist. Relation State Affairs (1857) I. 567 We have the confirmation of the decamping of the Irish from before Derry.
1770 J. Langhorne & W. Langhorne tr. Plutarch Lives (1879) II. 780/1 Cæsar hoped, by his frequent decampings, to provide better for his troops.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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