to elope (with sb)

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• elope — v. (D; intr.) to elope with (she eloped with her childhood sweetheart) * * * [ɪ ləʊp] (D; intr.) to elope with (she eloped with her childhood sweetheart) …   Combinatory dictionary

• elope — /əˈloʊp / (say uh lohp), /i / (say ee ) verb (i) (eloped, eloping) 1. to run away with a lover, usually in order to marry without parental consent: *what s become of the last housekeeper? Thought she was a fixture. Not eloped, I hope? –erle cox,… …  

• 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… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• elope — 1590s, to run off, probably a reborrowing from M.Du. (ont)lopen run away. Sense of run from parents to marry secretly is 19c. Anglo Fr. aloper run away from a husband with one s lover is attested from mid 14c., but there is a gap of many years.… …   Etymology dictionary

• elope — [[t]ɪlo͟ʊp[/t]] elopes, eloping, eloped V RECIP When two people elope they go away secretly together to get married. [pl n V] My girlfriend Lynn and I eloped... [V with n] In 1912 he eloped with Frieda von Richthofen …   English dictionary

• elope — [17] Etymologically, elope signifies ‘leap away’. It was originally an Anglo Norman legal term applied to a married woman running off with a lover, and only in the past couple of hundred years has it come to be applied to a couple leaving home to …   The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

• elope — [17] Etymologically, elope signifies ‘leap away’. It was originally an Anglo Norman legal term applied to a married woman running off with a lover, and only in the past couple of hundred years has it come to be applied to a couple leaving home to …   Word origins

• elope — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. t. run away, decamp, abscond. See marriage, escape. II (Roget s IV) v. Syn. run away with, run off, escape with a lover, slip out, fly, flee, abscond, go secretly, skip out*, go to Gretna Green*. III… …   English dictionary for students

• elope — intransitive verb (eloped; eloping) Etymology: Anglo French aloper, esloper to abduct, run away Date: 1628 1. to slip away ; escape < might have mistaken him for…some scarecrow eloped from a cornfield Washington Irving > 2. a. to run away from… …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• elope — verb /ɪˈləʊp,ɛˈləʊp,ɨˈloʊp,ɛˈloʊp/ a) To run away from home with a paramour. b) To run away from home with a lover for the purpose of getting married …   Wiktionary

• elope — elopement, n. eloper, n. /i lohp /, v.i., eloped, eloping. 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. [1590 …   Universalium