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decamp
verb
1 he sold their paintings and decamped with the proceeds:
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;
informal 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;
British, informal scarper;
North American, informal take a powder, go on the lam, light out, bug out, peel out, cut out;
British, informal , dated hook it.
antonyms return.
2 archaic the armies of both chiefs had decamped:
strike one's tents, break camp, move on.
antonyms encamp.
decamp Oxford Dictionary of English