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e·lope

   [ih-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.
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Origin:
1590–1600; Middle English *alopen to run away (whence Anglo-French aloper). See a-3, lope

Related forms
e·lope·ment, noun
e·lop·er, noun
non·e·lope·ment, noun
un·e·loped, adjective
un·e·lop·ing, adjective
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Example Sentences
  • In a stalled car in the middle of nowhere, that's where, with their plans to elope in shambles.
  • With the help of the count's jester, the girl and her lover are able to elope.
  • Normand and her boyfriend disguise themselves in blackface and elope.
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elope (ɪˈləʊp)
 
—vb
(intr) to run away secretly with a lover, esp in order to marry
 
[C16: from Anglo-French aloper, perhaps from Middle Dutch lōpen to run; see lope]
 
e'lopement
 
—n
 
e'loper
 
—n

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elope
1590s, 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,
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O.N. bruðhlaup), lit. "bridal run," the conducting of the woman to her new home. Related: Eloped; eloping.
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