elope Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb run away secretly with one's beloved
    run off.
    • The young couple eloped and got married in Las Vegas

WordNet

E*lope" intransitive verb
Etymology
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.
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Eloped ; present participle & verbal noun Eloping
Definitions
  1. 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.

Webster 1913