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Antonyms for elope

Grammar : Verb
Spell : ih-lohp
Phonetic Transcription : ɪˈloʊp


Definition of elope

Origin :
  • 1590s, "to run off," probably a reborrowing from Middle Dutch (ont)lopen "run away." Sense of "run from parents to marry secretly" is 19c. Anglo-French aloper "run away from a husband with one's lover" is attested from mid-14c., but there is a gap of many years.
  • The Anglo-French word represents Old French es- + Middle English lepen "run, leap" (see leap (v.)).
  • The oldest Germanic word for "wedding" is represented by Old English brydlop (cf. Old High German bruthlauft, Old Norse bruðhlaup), literally "bride run," the conducting of the woman to her new home. Related: Eloped; eloping.
  • verb run away to be married
Example sentences :
  • Goujet was an odd fellow, proposing to elope, just the way it happens in novels.
  • Extract from : « L'Assommoir » by Emile Zola
  • The man who had induced her to elope with him sat at dice with a gentleman from London!
  • Extract from : « The Tavern Knight » by Rafael Sabatini
  • Why don't you elope with some one—the dark, clinging girl—and let me free?
  • Extract from : « Garrison's Finish » by W. B. M. Ferguson
  • "Perhaps she will elope," the doctor said to his wife, humorously.
  • Extract from : « The Man Who Wins » by Robert Herrick
  • Well if one is on his way to elope—it is all the same:—one must have a companion, if not the one, then the other.'
  • Extract from : « Debts of Honor » by Maurus Jkai
  • You promised Countess Rostova to marry her and were about to elope with her, is that so?
  • Extract from : « War and Peace » by Leo Tolstoy
  • Yes, that's it, she means to elope with him, but what am I to do?
  • Extract from : « War and Peace » by Leo Tolstoy
  • She was all but a stranger, and I had assisted her to elope.
  • Extract from : « Blacksheep! Blacksheep! » by Meredith Nicholson
  • He could never permit them to elope; it would cause no end of trouble.
  • Extract from : « Operas Every Child Should Know » by Mary Schell Hoke Bacon
  • She was Miss Green and the dog Bob was going to elope with her.
  • Extract from : « Beautiful Joe » by Marshall Saunders

Synonyms for elope

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