elope

Verb

Meaning

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.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

run off dodge sally bolt run fly slip shun flit leave avoid double escape escaped emerge
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Antonyms

remain appear stay arrive concentrate quest
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Hypernyms

fly flee take flight

Derivatives

eloped Eloping

Examples

The young couple eloped and got married in Las Vegas Source: Internet

Dick Deadeye intercepts the Captain and tells him of the lovers' plans to elope. Source: Internet

Her sister Eliza foils Georgiana's marriage to the wealthy Lord Edwin Vere, when the couple is about to elope. Source: Internet

Wickham's subsequent attempt to grab a bigger chunk of the Darcy fortune by trying to elope with Darcy's sister Georgina (gross, too, considering she'd be his half-sister) makes more sense, too. Source: Internet

Verdon shocked her parents and instructors when she abandoned her budding career aged 17 to elope with reporter James Henaghan in 1942. Source: Internet

Jimmy Starr wrote, "If I were an Oscar, I'd elope with It's a Wonderful Life lock, stock and barrel on the night of the Academy Awards". Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

elongatory elongin elonid elopement eloper elopid