verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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If my father won't agree to the marriage, we'll just have to elope .
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Mary fell in love with Shelley and eloped with him to the Continent in 1814.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A year later, on September 3, 1946, they eloped.
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But none, I assure you, of an age or inclination to elope with an adolescent foreigner!
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Even a year later, she could not accept the fact that her only daughter had eloped.
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Just today one of the missionary school youth was about to elope with his new amour.
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Or were you going to elope ?
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Paris was mooted but when Henrietta could not find her passport they eloped to Edinburgh.
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They were unable to marry because of their different stations in life, and so eloped and fled to western Ireland.