ELOPE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does elope mean? 

• ELOPE (verb)
  The verb ELOPE has 1 sense:

1. run away secretly with one's beloved

  Familiarity information: ELOPE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ELOPE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they elope    ... he / she / it elopes   
Past simple: eloped   
Past participle: eloped   
-ing form: eloping   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Run away secretly with one's beloved

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

elope; run off

Context example:

The young couple eloped and got married in Las Vegas

Hypernyms (to "elope" is one way to...):

flee; fly; take flight (run away quickly)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP

Derivation:

elopement (the act of running away with a lover (usually to get married))

 Context examples 

My younger sister has left all her friends—has eloped; has thrown herself into the power of—of Mr. Wickham.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

She had not eloped with any worse feelings than those of selfish alarm.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

We were within a few hours of eloping together for Scotland.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

He read of sickly Elizabeth Barrett, who for years had not placed her feet upon the ground, until that day of flame when she eloped with Browning and stood upright, upon the earth, under the open sky; and what Browning had done for her, Martin decided he could do for Ruth.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

She had scarcely needed her present observation to be satisfied, from the reason of things, that their elopement had been brought on by the strength of her love, rather than by his; and she would have wondered why, without violently caring for her, he chose to elope with her at all, had she not felt certain that his flight was rendered necessary by distress of circumstances; and if that were the case, he was not the young man to resist an opportunity of having a companion.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

She was more alive to the disgrace which her want of new clothes must reflect on her daughter's nuptials, than to any sense of shame at her eloping and living with Wickham a fortnight before they took place.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)