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e⋅lope

   [i-lohp]
–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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e·lope     (ĭ-lōp')  Pronunciation Key 
intr.v.   e·loped, e·lop·ing, e·lopes
  1. To run away with a lover, especially with the intention of getting married.
  2. 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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Eloper

E*lop"er\, n. One who elopes.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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