elope
Pronunciation Verb
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Pronunciation Verb
elope (elopes, present participle eloping; past and past participle eloped)
- (intransitive, of a married person) To run away from home with a paramour.
- (intransitive, of an unmarried person) To run away secretly for the purpose of getting married with one's intended spouse; to marry in a quick or private fashion, especially without a public period of engagement.
- 1996, "Introduction", in The Piozzi Letters: Correspondence of Hester Lynch Piozzi, 1784-1821 (formerly Mrs. Thrale), Volume 4, 1805-1810 (eds. Edward A. Bloom & Lillian D. Bloom), Associated University Presses (1996), ISBN 0874133939, page 30 ↗:
- Although Cecilia was the youngest of the surviving Thrale daughters, she had been the first to marry, eloping to Gretna Green in 1795 with John Meredith Mostyn of neighboring Llewesog Lodge. Both were underage.
- 2009, Jan Springer, Intimate Stranger, Ellora's Cave (2009), ISBN 9781419921735, page 132 ↗:
- Although they had eloped in Vegas, she'd insisted he wear a tuxedo and she buy a wedding dress at one of the local stores.
- 2012, Shirley Jump, One Day to Find a Husband, Harlequin (2012), ISBN 9780373178216, page 136 ↗:
- They knew each other for maybe a month before they eloped in Vegas.
- 1996, "Introduction", in The Piozzi Letters: Correspondence of Hester Lynch Piozzi, 1784-1821 (formerly Mrs. Thrale), Volume 4, 1805-1810 (eds. Edward A. Bloom & Lillian D. Bloom), Associated University Presses (1996), ISBN 0874133939, page 30 ↗:
- (intransitive, dated) To run away from home (for any reason).
- c. 1794, Jane Austen, Lady Susan
- That horrid girl of mine has been trying to run away. I had not a notion of her being such a little devil before, she seemed to have all the Vernon milkiness; but on receiving the letter in which I declared my intention about Sir James, she actually attempted to elope; at least, I cannot otherwise account for her doing it. She meant, I suppose, to go to the Clarkes in Staffordshire, for she has no other acquaintances.
- c. 1794, Jane Austen, Lady Susan
- French: enfuir
- German: durchbrennen
- Italian: fuggire
- Russian: сбега́ть
- Spanish: arrancarse, escaparse, fugarse
- German: durchbrennen
- Italian: fuggire
- Russian: сбега́ть
- French: fuguer
- German: ausreißen, weglaufen
- Italian: scappare, fuggire, abbandonare, allontanarsi
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