break camp

English

Verb

break camp (third-person singular simple present breaks camp, present participle breaking camp, simple past broke camp, past participle broken camp)

1. To pack up a campsite and move on.

   Synonyms: strike camp, strike the tent

   Coordinate term: set up camp

   Soldiers, break camp! We strike the city of Sardis at dawn!

Translations

pack up a campsite and move on

• Dutch: opbreken (nl)
• Finnish: purkaa leiri
• French: lever le camp (fr), décamper (fr)
• Italian: levare il campo, decampare (it)
• Polish: zwijać obóz impf, zwinąć obóz pf
• Portuguese: levantar acampamento

Further reading

• “break camp” (US) in Macmillan English Dictionary.
• “break strike camp” (UK) in Macmillan English Dictionary.
• “break camp”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “break camp”, in Collins English Dictionary.