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Definition of elope verb from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

elope

verb
 
/ɪˈləʊp/
 
/ɪˈləʊp/
[intransitive]
Verb Forms
present simple I / you / we / they elope
 
/ɪˈləʊp/
 
/ɪˈləʊp/
he / she / it elopes
 
/ɪˈləʊps/
 
/ɪˈləʊps/
past simple eloped
 
/ɪˈləʊpt/
 
/ɪˈləʊpt/
past participle eloped
 
/ɪˈləʊpt/
 
/ɪˈləʊpt/
-ing form eloping
 
/ɪˈləʊpɪŋ/
 
/ɪˈləʊpɪŋ/
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  1. elope (with somebody) to run away with somebody in order to marry them secretly
    Word Originlate 16th cent. (in the general sense ‘abscond, run away’): from Anglo-Norman French aloper, perhaps related to leap.
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