Aide vs Decamp - What's the difference?
aide | decamp |
An assistant.
(military) An officer who acts as assistant to a more senior one; an aide-de-camp.
To break up camp and move on.
To disappear suddenly and secretly.
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As verbs the difference between aide and decamp
is that aide is while decamp is to break up camp and move on.aide
English
(wikipedia aide)Noun
(en noun)Anagrams
* ----decamp
English
Verb
(en verb)- Though unusual in the Dublin area he knew that it was not by any means unknown for desperadoes who had next to nothing to live on to be abroad waylaying and generally terrorising peaceable pedestrians by placing a pistol at their head in some secluded spot outside the city proper, famished loiterers of the Thames embankment category they might be hanging about there or simply marauders ready to decamp with whatever boodle they could in one fell swoop at a moment's notice, your money or your life, leaving you there to point a moral, gagged and garrotted.