Decamped vs Decapped - What's the difference?
decamped | decapped |
(decamp)
To break up camp and move on.
To disappear suddenly and secretly.
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(genetics) Describing nucleic acid molecules from which a cap has been removed
(computing) Converted from uppercase to lowercase
As a verb decamped
is past tense of decamp.As an adjective decapped is
describing nucleic acid molecules from which a cap has been removed.decamped
English
Verb
(head)decamp
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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.