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[ ih-lohp ] / ɪˈloʊp / SEE SYNONYMS FOR elope ON THESAURUS.COM
verb (used without object), e·loped, e·lop·ing.to run off secretly to be married, usually without the consent or knowledge of one's parents. to run away with a lover. to leave without permission or notification; escape: At age 21, the apprentice eloped from his master. (of a person with a mental disorder or cognitive impairment) to leave or run away from a safe area or safe premises. Origin of elope1590–1600; Middle English *alopen to run away (whence Anglo-French aloper). See a-3, lope OTHER WORDS FROM elopee·lope·ment, noune·lop·er, nounnon·e·lope·ment, nounun·e·loped, adjective un·e·lop·ing, adjective Words nearby elopeElohist, eloign, Eloise, elongate, elongation, elope, elopement, eloquence, eloquent, El Oued, El Paso Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for elopeOn Dec. 22, 1799, Sands told her cousins that she would be leaving to elope with a fellow boarder named Levi Weeks that night. New York’s Most Tragic Ghost Loves Minimalist Swedish Fashion|Nina Strochlic|January 8, 2015|DAILY BEAST Daughters who elope and dare to choose their own husbands are also considered dishonorable. India's Strangely Modern Killing Spree|Kiran Bedi|July 11, 2010|DAILY BEAST I wanted to elope, but Charles really wants to have a party for our friends. The D.C. Sex Blogger on How She Went From Slut to Housewife|Jessica Cutler|December 10, 2008|DAILY BEAST At Marsillac's boyish supplication, Ninon consented to elope with him. Superwomen|Albert Payson Terhune
He was frightfully rich, and so she agreed to elope with him. Sinister Street, vol. 1|Compton Mackenzie She'll make one of the high-flyers, without a grain of sense, and I dare say elope with the coachman. The Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe|Amanda Minnie Douglas "Well, we must elope with fear and trembling or it won't count," he cried. Nedra|George Barr McCutcheon An apprentice of a cordwainer in the town ran away in 1764, or, as it was worded on the police notice, "did elope from service." From John O'Groats to Land's End|Robert Naylor and John Naylor
British Dictionary definitions for elope
verb(intr) to run away secretly with a lover, esp in order to marry Derived forms of elopeelopement, nouneloper, nounWord Origin for elopeC16: from Anglo-French aloper, perhaps from Middle Dutch lōpen to run; see lope Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to eloperun off, fly, abscond, skip, leave, decamp, bolt, escape, flee, disappear, slip away, slip out, steal away |