(v. i.) To break up a camp; to move away from a camping ground, usually by night or secretly.
(v. i.) Hence, to depart suddenly; to run away; -- generally used disparagingly.
Example Sentences:
(1) When the Tunnel closed, Hardee decamped in 1991 to Up The Creek - a slightly better behaved venue in nearby Greenwich, which Hardee described as "the Tunnel with A-levels".
(2) The ECB has decamped to Slovakia, Bratislava for today's meeting.
(3) Morsi had decamped from Itahadiya palace, the traditional seat of the president, which is now surrounded by makeshift concrete walls in anticipation of Sunday's protests.
(4) Charles's years in Italy had had their disappointments, notably the end of his marriage to his wife, Peggy, who at one stage decamped with a bathing attendant.
(5) Originally the article stated that "detectives also conducted a search in the tabloid newsroom while staff were asked to decamp to a nearby bar."
(6) The tension ratcheted up when the team decamped to Paris before the show, especially when American Vogue editor Anna Wintour swung by to cast her eye over the work.
(7) Speaking from the constituency office where they had decamped for the day of the local and European election polls, the rebel said: "We are a bit unsure about how to deal with the problem of receiving hoax emails.
(8) On Saturday, City fans decamped to Wembley to watch their team surprisingly lose to Wigan Athletic in the FA Cup final.
(9) But the government eventually decamped first to Valencia, then to Barcelona.
(10) Once Yohan Cabaye decamped to Paris Saint-Germain in 2014 Pardew gave up any pretence of adopting a passing style but the downside was that Newcastle, as now, could never be said to be in command of matches.
(11) John Darr, the sheriff of Muscogee County in Columbus, Georgia, has created the new facility in an attempt to break the cycle of recidivism by providing them with specialist services to help them deal with the problems they carry with them when they decamp.
(12) On Saturday nights, the Musgraves clan would decamp to local oprys around Texas, where Kacey would perform traditional, crowd-pleasing material.
(13) After 2010 the Brown government decamped to the opposition benches, its thinking and personnel largely unchanged, with a result that was entirely predictable.
(14) The original stated that "the seat's Muslim immigrant community had decamped from Labour en masse to Galloway's fundamentalist call for an immediate British troop withdrawal...".
(15) During the spring fair ( Feria de Abril , 30 April-7 May), half the city decamps to the casetas of the Recinto Ferial to parade on horseback, drink sherry with lemonade, and dance sevillanas .
(16) With the latter decamping to the north-west, Manchester became the scene of a prolonged final act in which Richard Bevan, the chief executive of the LMA, mediated with Newcastle's board and Keegan's lawyers were briefed for battle.
(17) He signed up to an optimistic delivery date of 10 months and, because his writing cell wasn't quite ascetic enough, decamped to Berlin to write in complete isolation.
(18) In a gilded room at the Grosvenor House hotel, Uefa's Park Lane base for its Champions League final decampment to London, Michel Platini is extolling England's cherished role in football history.
(19) There is a rebranding of the ready-to-wear and the studio is decamping from Paris to LA, where Slimane now lives.
(20) At night the tens of thousands decamped within the jungle are impossible to locate – the CAR is regarded as the least light-polluted country in the world , its darkness due to its lack of development.