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encamp

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en·camp  (n-kmp)
v. en·camped, en·camp·ing, en·camps
v.intr.
To set up camp or live in a camp.
v.tr.
To provide quarters for in a camp: encamp migrant workers near the fields.
encamp
Verb
Formal to set up a camp
encampment n
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Verb1.encamp - live in or as if in a tent; "Can we go camping again this summer?"; "The circus tented near the town"; "The houseguests had to camp in the living room"
bivouac, camp, camp out, tent
inhabit, live, populate, dwell - inhabit or live in; be an inhabitant of; "People lived in Africa millions of years ago"; "The people inhabited the islands that are now deserted"; "this kind of fish dwells near the bottom of the ocean"; "deer are populating the woods"


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I determined to build a fire and encamp where we were.
The Time Machine by Wells, H.G. View in context
Let them look round and select a spot whence they can best suppress insurrection, if any prove refractory within, and also defend themselves against enemies, who like wolves may come down on the fold from without; there let them encamp, and when they have encamped, let them sacrifice to the proper Gods and prepare their dwellings.
The Republic by Plato View in context
  May aches and diseases encamp in their bones,
The Devil's Dictionary by Bierce, Ambrose View in context
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