Crossword clues for eloping
eloping
- Running off
- Marrying in haste
- Wedding on the run
- Unceremoniously leaving?
- Running off to marry
- Marrying secretly
- Marrying on the sly
- Like lovers skipping church?
- Leaving unceremoniously?
- Employing the secret service?
- Bypassing the altar, in a way
- Activity for two
- Act II action in "Romeo and Juliet"
- Act II action for Romeo and Juliet
- Running for one's wife?
- Like Romeo and Juliet, in Act II
- Forestalling objections, you might say
- Leaving via ladder, perhaps
- Activity for running mates?
- Like Romeo and Juliet in Act 2
- Attempted activity in "The Barber of Seville"
- Amorous action by Jessica
- Former Gretna Green activity
- European uprising? At home, government's running away
- Slipping off at an angle, with initial change of direction
- Leaving unannounced for an away match
- Running off with online journal containing access code
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 or station to which one is bound by duty; -- said especially of a woman or a man, either married or unmarried, who runs away with a paramour or a sweetheart.
Great numbers of them [the women] have eloped from
their allegiance.
--Addison.
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of elope English)
Usage examples of "eloping".
For two people who are supposed to be eloping, Mark and Holly told an AWFUL lot of people beforehand.
I still don’t see how Marie is going to extrapolate from this that Mark and Holly are eloping in Italy.
Dulcie would be better off eloping with a street sweeper than marrying the sort of man George Bennett would force on her.
Plainly, he would not lend any support to her scheme of eloping with Miss Daubenay herself.
While he believed her to be eloping with her true love he bore her no ill-will.
Setting aside all else, if it were known along the road that we were eloping, we should be easily traced, and we don’t want that, do we?
Gerard kept a sharp eye on the extortionate post-boy, alighting from the chaise, and engaging him in talk to prevent his passing the word to the new postilion that he was helping an eloping couple to reach the Border.
As for eloping with Ninian, that would be a nonsensical thing to do, because—"