decamping
Meaning of decamping
verb, gerund or present participle
- leave a place suddenly or secretly.
now he has decamped to Hollywood
- break up or leave a military camp.
the armies of both chiefs had decamped
late 17th century: from French décamper, from dé- (expressing removal) + camp ‘camp’.
Information about decamping
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Hyphenation of decamping
de-camp-ing
- It consists of 3 syllables and 9 chars.
- decamping is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
decamping synonyms
Meaning leave hurriedly and secretly, typically to escape from custody or avoid arrest:
Meaning run away from a place or situation of danger:
Meaning fasten (a door or window) with a bar that slides into a socket:
Meaning cease to be visible:
Meaning disappear suddenly and completely:
Meaning break free from confinement or control:
Meaning go away from:
Meaning leave, especially in order to start a journey:
Meaning leave a place, especially suddenly:
Meaning leave or go away from a place quickly:
Meaning depart quickly or hurriedly; run away:
Meaning depart hurriedly:
Meaning move along lightly, stepping from one foot to the other with a hop or bounce:
Meaning run away:
decamping antonyms
Meaning come or go back to a place or person:
Meaning settle in or establish a camp:
Words that rhyme with decamping
Ping, ping, Sellotaping, aping, awhaping, bedraping, beleaping, caping, cheaping, craping, dognaping, draping, escaping, gaping, graping, heaping, japing, kidnaping, landscaping, leaping, misshaping, neaping, nonscraping, outleaping, outshaping, overheaping, overleaping, petnaping, preescaping, preshaping, pretaping, raping, reaping, relandscaping, reshaping, retaping, scaping, scraping, sellotaping, shaping, skyscraping, sneaping, soaping, subgaping, taping, threaping, townscaping, transshaping, traping, uncaping
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