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eloped
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Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
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 place ...
Usage examples of eloped.
But I do try to be, because I know I am very much obliged to Aunt Bugle for—for giving me a home, when she held Papa in the utmost aversion, and had had a terrible quarrel with my mama when Mama eloped with him, and never forgave her.
Not that I ever knew her, because she eloped with Wilfred Steane out of the schoolroom, you know, which shows the most shocking want of delicacy, and just what one would expect in any sister of that Bugle woman!
What with thinking Charlie had eloped with Cherry, and then hearing that Wilfred Steane was on his way to visit us, she’s been having spasms, and vapours, and every sort of ache and ill, and is now in the worst of ill-humours!
No one would ever believe we had not planned it all, because if she eloped with you she would not then wish to marry me, now, would she?
I mean to do nothing because my cousin has not eloped with your daughter.
Ay, glad of it, and glad that any man rather than that vicious, scoundrelly whelp of yours, had eloped with Lydia!
About once every five years, the ministers set up an investigative committee, and when they look into it, it turns out the women ran off to the city, or they eloped with someone, or they were pregnant by someone Papa didn't approve of.
He grew tired of allowing Glorieta her youth and eloped with our schoolmate, guess who?