decamp
verb
[ dɪˈkamp ]
• leave a place suddenly or secretly.
• "now he has decamped to Hollywood"
Similar:
abscond,
make off,
run off,
run away,
flee,
bolt,
take off,
take flight,
disappear,
vanish,
slip away,
steal away,
sneak away,
beat a hasty retreat,
escape,
make a run for it,
make one's getaway,
leave,
depart,
make oneself scarce,
split,
scram,
skedaddle,
vamoose,
skip,
cut and run,
make tracks,
push off,
shove off,
clear off,
hightail it,
hotfoot it,
show a clean pair of heels,
do a bunk,
do a runner,
do a moonlight flit,
do a disappearing act,
head for the hills,
fly the coop,
take French leave,
go AWOL,
scarper,
take a powder,
go on the lam,
light out,
bug out,
peel out,
cut out,
hook it,
• break up or leave a military camp.
• "the armies of both chiefs had decamped"
Similar:
strike one's tents,
break camp,
move on,
Origin:
late 17th century: from French décamper, from dé- (expressing removal) + camp ‘camp’.
