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–verb (used without object), e·loped, e·lop·ing.

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.

[Origin: 1590–1600; ME *alopen to run away (whence AF aloper). See a-³, lope

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—Related forms

e·lope·ment, noun

e·lop·er, noun

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intr.v. e·loped, e·lop·ing, e·lopes

To run away with a lover, especially with the intention of getting married.
To run away; abscond.

[Perhaps Anglo-Norman aloper, to run away from one's husband with a lover, from Middle Dutch ontlopen, to run away : ont-, away from, along; see ant- in Indo-European roots + lopen, to run.]

e·lope'ment n., e·lop'er n.

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elope

1596, from Anglo-Fr. aloper "run away from a husband with one's lover" (1338), from O.Fr es- + M.E. lepen "run, leap," or M.Du. (out)lopen "run away." Sense of "lovers who run from parents to marry secretly" is 19c. The oldest Gmc. word for "wedding" is represented by O.E. brydlop (cf. O.H.G. bruthlauft, O.N. bruðhlaup), lit. "bridal run," the conducting of the woman to her new home.

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elope
verb
run away secretly with one's beloved; "The young couple eloped and got married in Las Vegas"

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elope [iˈləup] verb

to run away secretly, especially with a lover

Arabic:	تَفِرُّ مع عَشيقِها
Chinese (Simplified):	私奔
Chinese (Traditional):	私奔
Czech:	utéci (od)
Danish:	stikke af for at gifte sig
Dutch:	er vandoor gaan
Estonian:	(armukesega) pagema
Finnish:	karata
French:	s'enfuir (ensemble)
German:	durchbrennen
Greek:	κλέβομαι (για εραστές)
Hungarian:	megszökik
Icelandic:	hlaupast á brott
Indonesian:	kawin lari
Italian:	fuggire

Japanese:	駆け落ちする
Korean:	(남녀가) 눈이 맞아 함께 달아나다
Latvian:	slepus aizbēgt (ar iemīļoto)
Lithuanian:	pabėgti
Norwegian:	rømme (for å gifte seg)
Polish:	uciec (z ukochanym)
Portuguese (Brazil):	evadir-se, fugir
Portuguese (Portugal):	fugir
Romanian:	a fugi (pe ascuns)
Russian:	тайно бежать (с возлюбленным)
Slovak:	utiecť (od)
Slovenian:	skrivaj pobegniti
Spanish:	fugarse (para casarse)
Swedish:	rymma
Turkish:	kaçmak

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Elope

E*lope"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Eloped; p. pr. & vb. n. Eloping.] [D. ontloopen to run away; pref. ont- (akin to G. ent-, AS. and-, cf. E. answer) + loopen to run; akin to E. leap. See Leap, v. t.] To run away, or escape privately, from the place or station to which one is bound by duty; -- said especially of a woman or a man, either married or unmarried, who runs away with a paramour or a sweetheart.

Great numbers of them [the women] have eloped from their allegiance. --Addison.

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