Definition of elope in English:

verb

• Run away secretly in order to get married.

  ‘later he eloped with one of the housemaids’

  More example sentences

  • ‘‘I eloped with John Bardy, the stableboy you fired,’ Annabelle said coldly.’
  • ‘I'm beginning to understand some of what my mother must have gone through after I eloped with Rolf.’
  • ‘Never particularly happy in his home life, at the age of 19 Shelley eloped with his first love, Harriet Grove, who bore him a daughter two years later.’
  • ‘She eloped with a Greek, so we're going to Greece to meet the in-laws.’
  • ‘But Avon was long gone, having eloped with her high-school love interest, David Wrighter.’
  • ‘You just disappeared and Eileen told me that you had eloped with a man you'd been seeing on the sly.’
  • ‘She remembered the solitary week his clinic had lasted before he had eloped with the superintendent's wife.’
  • ‘Hogarth, his sometime pupil, eloped with his daughter in 1729.’
  • ‘By the early 1950s, however, she had eloped with the Czech-Irish writer Ernest Gebler and by the time her first book was published, she had left for London, where she has lived ever since.’
  • ‘One long sequence in which she tells Charles the story of how she eloped with her husband, and the consequences that ensued, is a minor tour de force of sustained emotional expression.’
  • ‘Although Caroli never ‘escaped her mother's domination,’ she did succeed in leaving home when she eloped with a man she had ‘dated for two weeks.’’
  • ‘After being expelled from various convent schools and working briefly as a model, she eloped with an aspiring poet when she was 18.’
  • ‘Today she was complaining about her grand-daughter who had eloped with the washer-man.’
  • ‘So she eloped with a guy with bad anger management problems so they could start a new life… with no money, no plan, and absolutely nowhere to go.’
  • ‘He eloped with a daughter of the duke of Richmond in 1744 and they were a devoted couple, dying within days of one another.’
  • ‘‘Of course,’ said Cyrvil, recalling her own Mother's lady-in-waiting who had eloped with a knight from another Great Isle.’
  • ‘Tell me honestly, would you truly befriend your enemies after discovering their kid eloped with your child, and then made this whole chaotic catastrophe that led to their deaths?’
  • ‘As Elizabeth Linley, before she eloped with Sheridan around 1773, the sitter was a professional singer and member of a celebrated musical family in Bath.’
  • ‘Count Baldwin I of Flanders eloped with Judith, daughter of King Charles the Bald of the west Franks, who was by the age of 16 the widow of two kings of Wessex.’

  Synonyms

  run away to marry, run away together, run off together, slip away, sneak off, steal away

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