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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To depart secretly or suddenly.
  2. v. To depart from a camp or camping ground.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To depart from a camp or camping-ground; break camp; march off: as, the army decamped at six o'clock.
  2. In a general sense, to depart quickly, secretly, or unceremoniously; take one's self off; run away: as, he decamped suddenly.
  3. To camp.

Wiktionary

  1. v. intransitive To break up camp and move on.
  2. v. intransitive To disappear suddenly and secretly.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. To break up a camp; to move away from a camping ground, usually by night or secretly.
  2. v. Hence, to depart suddenly; to run away; -- generally used disparagingly.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. leave suddenly
  2. v. run away; usually includes taking something or somebody along
  3. v. leave a camp

Etymologies

  1. French décamper, from Old French descamper, to strike camp : des-, de- + camper, to camp (from camp, camp; see camp1). (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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