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What does decamp mean?

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Verb
  1. (intransitive) To break up camp and move on.
  2. (intransitive) To disappear suddenly and secretly.
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From time to time, the bluebottle and the flesh fly perch on the trellis-work, make a short investigation and then decamp.
Because she was a stranger who was likely to decamp instantly when he let her go?
For starters, you must eliminate excess, so, if you wished, you could decamp on a dime.
Yushchenko had asked the protesters to strike the camp last week, but many were reluctant to decamp and many stalwarts only began leaving Friday or Saturday.
When they decamp owing to poor pay, bad working conditions and a lack of opportunity, patients suffer and health-care systems crumble.
I asked, thinking that we might have to decamp, and looking out for a place of safety.

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