Definitions for: Encamp


[v] 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"



Webster (1913) Definition: En*camp", v. i. [imp. & p. p. Encamped (?; 215); p.
pr. & vb. n. Encamping.]
To form and occupy a camp; to prepare and settle in temporary
habitations, as tents or huts; to halt on a march, pitch
tents, or form huts, and remain for the night or for a longer
time, as an army or a company traveling.

The host of the Philistines encamped in the valley of
Rephaim. --1 Chron. xi.
15.


En*camp", v. t.
To form into a camp; to place in a temporary habitation, or
quarters.

Bid him encamp his soldiers. --Shak.

Synonyms: bivouac, camp, camp out, tent

See Also: domicile, domiciliate, dwell, inhabit, live, people, populate, reside, shack

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