elope
11elope — [[t]ɪlo͟ʊp[/t]] elopes, eloping, eloped V RECIP When two people elope they go away secretly together to get married. [pl n V] My girlfriend Lynn and I eloped... [V with n] In 1912 he eloped with Frieda von Richthofen …
12elope — /əˈloʊp / (say uh lohp), /i / (say ee ) verb (i) (eloped, eloping) 1. to run away with a lover, usually in order to marry without parental consent: *what s become of the last housekeeper? Thought she was a fixture. Not eloped, I hope? –erle cox,… …
13elope — [17] Etymologically, elope signifies ‘leap away’. It was originally an Anglo Norman legal term applied to a married woman running off with a lover, and only in the past couple of hundred years has it come to be applied to a couple leaving home to …
14elope — intransitive verb (eloped; eloping) Etymology: Anglo French aloper, esloper to abduct, run away Date: 1628 1. to slip away ; escape < might have mistaken him for…some scarecrow eloped from a cornfield Washington Irving > 2. a. to run away from… …
15elope — elopement, n. eloper, n. /i lohp /, v.i., eloped, eloping. 1. to run off secretly to be married, usually without the consent or knowledge of one s parents. 2. to run away with a lover. 3. to leave without permission or notification; escape. [1590 …
16elope — verb /ɪˈləʊp,ɛˈləʊp,ɨˈloʊp,ɛˈloʊp/ a) To run away from home with a paramour. b) To run away from home with a lover for the purpose of getting married …
17elope — Synonyms and related words: abscond, absquatulate, beat a retreat, bolt, clear out, cut and run, decamp, depart, desert, flee, fly, fugitate, go AWOL, jump, jump bail, levant, make off, run, run away, run away from, run away with, run for it, run …
18elope — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. t. run away, decamp, abscond. See marriage, escape. II (Roget s IV) v. Syn. run away with, run off, escape with a lover, slip out, fly, flee, abscond, go secretly, skip out*, go to Gretna Green*. III… …
19elope — e|lope [ıˈləup US ıˈloup] v [Date: 1500 1600; : Anglo French; Origin: aloper [i] to run away ] to leave your home secretly in order to get married ▪ My parents didn t approve of the marriage, so we eloped. >elopement n [U and C] …
20elope — e·lope || ɪ ləʊp v. secretly run away for the purpose of being married …
