Definitions for decamps

decamps de·camp

Spelling: [dih-kamp]
IPA: /dɪˈkæmp/

Decamps is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 251 anagrams from letters in decamps (acdemps).

Definitions for decamps

verb (used without object)

  1. to depart from a camp; to pack up equipment and leave a camping ground:
  2. to depart quickly, secretly, or unceremoniously:

Origin of decamps

1670-80; French décamper, equivalent to dé- dis-1 + camper to encamp; see camp1

Examples for decamps

I shall turn her over to Moses, and decamp before she gets there.

I asked, thinking that we might have to decamp, and looking out for a place of safety.

Because she was a stranger who was likely to decamp instantly when he let her go?

"This fellow may want to decamp for some reason or other," he said to himself.

For my own part, I know of nothing more likely to make them decamp.

The Emperor, informed of this, ordered them forthwith to decamp.

decamp he did, taking with him, perhaps by accident, the costly jewel.

Within a couple of years he intends to decamp for either San Diego or San Francisco.

For starters, you must eliminate excess, so, if you wished, you could decamp on a dime.

When he finds that I have left he will decamp without loss of time.

Word Value for decamps
Scrable

13

Words with friends

16

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