Elope

Definition: Elope

Elope

Verb

1. Run away secretly with one's beloved; "The young couple eloped and got married in Las Vegas".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "elope" was first used: 1596. (references)

Note: Elope \E*lope"\, intransitive verb. [imperative past participle Eloped; present participle verb or noun Eloping.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonym: Elope

Avoidance

Beat a retreat; turn tail, turn one's back; take to one's heels; runaway, run for one's life; cut and run; be off like a shot; fly, flee; fly away, flee away, run away from; take flight, take to flight; desert, elope; make off, scamper off, sneak off, shuffle off, sheer off; break away, tear oneself away, slip away, slink away, steel away, make away from, scamper away from, sneak away from, shuffle away from, sheer away from; slip cable, part company, turn one's heel; sneak out of, play truant, give one the go by, give leg bail, take French leave, slope, decamp, flit, bolt, abscond, levant, skedaddle, absquatulate, cut one's stick, walk one's chalks, show a light pair of heels, make oneself scarce; escape; go away; (depart); abandon; reject.

Crosswords: Elope

Screech, you can't elope. (Saved by the Bell; writing credit: Ana Maria Moretzsohn)

Let's elope. That's soooo romantic. (East Is East; writing credit: Ayub Khan-Din)

Oh, we're not going to elope. We have so much money, could our wedding please be bigger? (Friends; writing credit: Jörn O. Jensen; Birger Larsen)

Then we can elope to Europe, or the Caymans, wherever, where I'll let you impregnate me with the first of 3 children before you head off to rehab. (I Know What You Did Last Summer; writing credit: Kevin Williamson)

Elope If You Must (1922)

Let's Elope (1919)

Joys Elope (1916)

Ella Wanted to Elope (1916)

She Must Elope (1913)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Music

• Let's Elope Baby (reference)

• Let's Elope Baby [IMPORT] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expression using "elope": elope with. Additional references.

Albanian

ik me të dashurin, fshihem (disappear, efface oneself, fade, Harbor, harbour, hide away, hide oneself, Lam, lurk, rub oneself, skulk), arratisem (break, break out, decamp, escape, evade, run off, scat, scoot, sling one's hook, take away, take flight). (various references)

Arabic 

‏فر مع العشيقة, ‏فر (abscond, bolt, break away, decamp, escape, flee, flight, fly, get away, get free, get off, run away, run off, slope, take flight, take to one's heels), ‏هرب (abscond, contraband, drive away, escape, fled, flee, fleeing, fly, get away, get out of, powder, put to flight, run away, run first, run from smb., run off, shun, slope, smuggle, take flight, take to one's heels, tamper, traffic, turn tail). (various references)

Bulgarian 

приставам, избягвам (abscond, break loose, break out, circumnavigate, dodge, elude, escape, evade, gallop away, get away, get off, get out, go off, make a break for it, mizzle, obviate, prevent, run, run away, run off, scarper, scuttle away, shrink away, shun, skirt around, skitter, take flight). (various references)

Chinese 

�" (go to, to elope, to hurry or rush, to run quickly, towards). (various references)

Czech

utéci (abscond, boil over, escape, flee, run away, run off, scape, take off), uprchnout (abscond, elude, flee, get away, make one's getaway, scape). (various references)

Farsi 

فرارکردن بامعشوق , فرارکردن (Abscond, Escape, Flight, Scape, Skedaddle, Stampede). (various references)

Finnish

karata (desert, escape, run away). (various references)

French

s'enfuir pour se marier, s'enfuir avec qn pour l'épouser, prendre la fuite. (various references)

German

durchgehen (be allowed, be non-stop, be passed, be tolerated, bolt, check, check through, comb through, come through, cover, go over, go through, pass through, peruse, racing, run off, run through, sift, slip by, slip past, to come home, to peruse, to race, walk through), durchbrennen (abscond, blow, blow out, burn out, burn through, burn-out, elopement, fuel burn-out, run away, run off, to race). (various references)

Greek 

δραπετεύω με εραστή. (various references)

Hungarian

elszöktet (to abduct, to elope), megszökik (abscond, escape, fall away, get away, to abscond, to defect, to desert, to effect one's escape, to elope, to make one's escape, to make tracks, to skedaddle, to skip off). (various references)

Indonesian

sebambang, membambang, kabur (bleary, blurred, bolt (of a horse), decamp, elopment, fading, flee, fuzzy, run off, unclear). (various references)

Italian

scappare (abscond, bolt, break, escape, flee, get away, pop off, run away, rush, scamper, slip), fuggire o scappare. (various references)

Manx

feolaghey (abscond). (various references)

Pig Latin

elopeay

Portuguese

evadir (avoid, evade, jump bail), aumento (accession, accretion, accrual, addition, advance, advancement, aggrandizement, augment, augmentation, enlargement, expansion, explosive, extra, gain, growth, increase, increment, magnification, marl, raise, rise, spread, swell, swelling). (various references)

Romanian

fugi (career, chase, collide, course, dash, disappear, escape, flee, fly, fly off, give way, make off, make one's escape, pack off, run, scamper, scatter, scuttle away, take oneself to flight). (various references)

Russian 

сбежать с возлюбленным, сбежать (bolt, levant, sling one's hook). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

pobeći (break out, escape, flee, get away, make off, run, run away, run off, take flight). (various references)

Spanish

escaparse con un amante, fugarse con un amante. (various references)

Swedish

rymma (abscond, accommodate, admit, carry, contain, desert, escape, flee, flit, hold, run away, seat, Stow, take). (various references)

Thai

(หญิงชาย) หนีตามกันไปโ�"ยไม่แต่งงานหรือขออนุญาตจากผู้ปกครอง. (various references)

Turkish

sevgilisi ile kaçmak, kaçmak (abscond, blow, bolt, break, break away, bunk, clear off, decamp, defect, desert, escape, fade, flee, fly, fly away, get away, go by, hook it, ladder, Lam, lapse, leg it, light out, make a bolt for it, make off, nip off, pack up, pull out, retreat, run, run away, run off, scamper away, scoot, scuttle, skip, skip it, skip out, slip, slip off, slope off, take flight, travel, walk off). (various references)

Ukranian 

сховатися (decamp, ensconce, refuge), тікати (abscond, beat, bung off, chivvy, chivy, flee, go off, hop it, light out, run away, scat, scoot, scram, scurry away, skedaddle, skirr, trundle). (various references)

aloper. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "elope": eloped, elopement, elopements, eloper, elopers, elopes. (additional references)

Words ending with "elope": antelope, develope, envelope, gantelope. (additional references)

Words containing "elope": antelopes, codeveloped, codeveloper, codevelopers, developed, developer, developers, developes, enveloped, envelopes, gantelopes, misdeveloped, overdeveloped, redeveloped, redeveloper, redevelopers, underdeveloped, undeveloped. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Elope" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: alape, alope, eleonex, elibe, Ellepo, ellopi, elob, elode, eloe, Elohe, elooper, eloqe, elote, elowe, elpee, Elspet, eluge, Eole, eop, eople, iaopa, Leipe. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: lope, peel, pele, pole.

-2 letters: eel, lee, lop, ole, ope, pee, pol.

-3 letters: el, lo, oe, op, pe.

+1 letter: eloped, eloper, elopes, people, pollee.

+2 letters: deplore, develop, eelpout, elopers, employe, envelop, explode, explore, leprose, parolee, peopled, peopler, peoples, petiole, poleaxe, pollees, polyene.

+3 letters: antelope, beanpole, complete, decouple, deplored, deplorer, deplores, deployed, develope, develops, eelpouts, employed, employee, employer, employes, envelope, envelops, eolipile, eolopile, epilogue, estoppel, exploded, exploder, explodes, explored, explorer, explores, gospeler, heelpost, hopeless, lepidote, leporine, loppered, lycopene, opalesce, openable, operable, opercele, opercule, opulence, outsleep, overleap, parolees, peephole, pemoline, penoncel, peoplers, peploses, peroneal, pesthole, petioled, petioles, petronel, phenetol, pledgeor, poetless, poetlike, poleaxed, poleaxes, poleless, polemize, pollened, polyenes, polygene, polytene, pommeled, popeless, popelike, recouple, redeploy, reemploy, repeople, repolled, ropelike, teleport, toeplate, unpeople.

+4 letters: aeroplane, anopheles, antelopes, beanpoles, cellphone, codevelop, compelled, completed, completer, completes, complexed, complexer, complexes, decoupled, decouples, depletion, deplorers, despoiled, despoiler, developed, developer, developes, diplotene, dispeople, elopement, employees, employers, enveloped, envelopes, eolipiles, eolopiles, epibolies, epilogued, epilogues, epistoler, escaloped, espanoles, estoppels, expletory, exploders, exploited, exploiter, explorers, explosive, gantelope, gospelers, gospeller, heelposts, hyperbole, interlope, laypeople, lectotype, lepidotes, leporidae, leprosies, leptosome, leptotene, lycopenes, metroplex, oenophile, opalesced, opalesces, operceles, opercules, operosely, opulences, outleaped, outsleeps, outyelped, overleaps, overleapt, overpedal, overplied, overplies, oversleep, overslept, paloverde, pedophile, peepholes, pelecypod, peloruses, pemolines, penholder, pennoncel, penoncels, percolate, personnel, pestholes, petiolate, petiolule, petroleum, petronels, pewholder, phellogen, phenetols, phenolate, pistoleer, placeboes, pledgeors, plenteous, pointelle, polemized, polemizes, policemen, politesse, polyester, polygenes, polythene, pommelled, porbeagle, poulterer, powerless, preboiled, precooled, premolded, prolepses, propelled, propeller, propylene, proselyte, recompile, recoupled, recouples, redeploys, redevelop, reemploys, reexplore, repeopled, repeoples, repletion, replotted, reposeful, ridgepole, sepiolite, sheepfold, sleepover, soleplate, someplace, telephone, telephony, telephoto, teleports, telescope, telophase, terpineol, toeplates, unpeopled, unpeoples, xenophile, xerophile.

+5 letters: aeroplanes, anopheline, apoplexies, cellophane, cellphones, clomiphene, codevelops, coemployed, coleoptera, coleoptile, complected, complement, completely, completest, completive, complexest, corpulence, couplement, depletions, deplorable, deployable, deployment, depolarize, depolished, depolishes, depopulate, deportable, despoilers, developers, developing, diplotenes, dispeopled, dispeoples, elopements, employable, employment, encephalon, enveloping, epileptoid, epistolers, escalloped, esophageal, euploidies, exploiters, exploitive, explosives, exportable, extemporal, fleahopper, fourplexes, gantelopes, goalkeeper, gospellers, helicopted, helicopter, heliotrope, heterophil, hopelessly, hyperbolae, hyperboles, incomplete, inoperable, interloped, interloper, interlopes, leafhopper, lectotypes, leopardess, lepidolite, leptosomes, leptospire, leptotenes, leukopenia, leukopenic, lockkeeper, megalopses, mellophone, misdevelop, necropoles, newspeople, oenophiles, opalescent, operculate, opposeless, opulencies, outspelled, overlapped, overleaped, overpedals, overpeople, overplayed, overpluses, oversimple, oversleeps, palmettoes, paloverdes, pedologies, pedophiles, pelecypods, penholders, pennoncels, penologies, peoplehood, peopleless, percolated, percolates, perfoliate, perihelion, periosteal, peritoneal, personable, personnels, petalodies, petiolules, petroleums, pewholders, phelloderm, phellogens, phenolated, phenolates, phenomenal, pigeonhole, pistoleers, pocketable, pointelles, polemicize, politeness, politesses, pollenizer, pollenoses, polychaete, polyesters, polymerase, polymerise, polymerize, polysemies, polytenies, polythenes, ponderable, porbeagles, potbellied, potbellies, poulterers, powderless, powderlike, precollege, prelection, projectile, propellent, propellers, propylenes, proselyted, proselytes, protostele, pseudocoel, recompiled, recompiles, recoupable, redeployed, redevelops, reemployed, reexplored, reexplores, repeopling, repletions, repolarize, repolished, repolishes, repopulate, reportable, reportedly, ridgepoles, ropewalker, sepiolites, sheepfolds, sleepovers, soleplates, speleology, spleenwort, supermodel, telephoned, telephoner, telephones, telephonic, telephotos, teleported, telescoped, telescopes, telescopic, teliospore, telophases, terpineols, terpolymer, thermopile, treponemal, unemployed, unexploded, unexplored, unopenable, velocipede, videophile, weaponless, workpeople, xenophiles.

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