Encamp
[ɪn'kæmp;en-]
Definition
(v. i.) To form and occupy a camp; to prepare and settle in temporary habitations, as tents or huts; to halt on a march, pitch tents, or form huts, and remain for the night or for a longer time, as an army or a company traveling.
(v. t.) To form into a camp; to place in a temporary habitation, or quarters.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. n. Camp, pitch one's tent, pitch a camp.
v. a. Place in a camp.
Editor: Margaret
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Settle, pitch, quarter, bivouac
ANT:March, decamp, retire, retreat
Editor: William
Definition
v.t. to form into a camp.—v.i. to pitch tents: to halt on a march.—n. Encamp′ment the act of encamping: the place where an army or company is encamped: a camp.
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Examples
- To get dry land, or rather land above the water, to encamp the troops upon, took many miles of river front. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- We have found traces which show that a party of gypsies encamped on Monday night within a mile of the spot where the murder took place. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- The venerable inhabitants of that venerable pile seemed, in those times, to be encamped there like a sort of civilised gipsies. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- The evening of the 9th the army was encamped on its old ground near the Fort, and the garrison was relieved. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- On the 19th General Taylor, with is army, was encamped at Walnut Springs, within three miles of Monterey. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- They are going to be encamped near Brighton; and I do so want papa to take us all there for the summer! Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- Harris had been encamped in a creek bottom for the sake of being near water. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- It started from Venice (1202), captured Zara, encamped at Constantinople (1203), and finally, in 1204, stormed the city. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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