What is the meaning of decamp?

Leave a camp.
- usage: "The hikers decamped before dawn"
- synonyms: break camp
Run away; usually includes taking something or somebody along.
- usage: "The thief made off with our silver"; "the accountant absconded with the cash from the safe"
- synonyms: abscond, bolt, absquatulate, run off, go off, make off
Leave suddenly.
- usage: "She persuaded him to decamp"; "skip town"
- synonyms: skip, vamoose

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