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Decamp vs Flee - What's the difference?

decamp | flee |

In intransitive terms the difference between decamp and flee

is that decamp is to disappear suddenly and secretly while flee is to disappear quickly; to vanish.

decamp

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • To break up camp and move on.
  • To disappear suddenly and secretly.
  • * , Episode 16
  • 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.

    Synonyms

    * abscond * absquatulate

    Anagrams

    *

    flee

    English

    Verb

  • (label) To run away; to escape.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Michael Arlen), title= “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days, chapter=Ep./4/2
  • , passage=As they turned into Hertford Street they startled a robin from the poet's head on a barren fountain, and he fled away with a cameo note.}}
  • (label) To escape from.
  • (label) To disappear quickly; to vanish.
  • Anagrams

    * * English irregular verbs ----