单词 | decamp |
释义 | decampv. 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. 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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