elope. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.

The American Heritage^® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.

elope

SYLLABICATION:	e·lope
PRONUNCIATION:	-lp
INTRANSITIVE VERB:	Inflected forms: e·loped, e·lop·ing, e·lopes 1. To run away with a lover, especially with the intention of getting married. 2. To run away; abscond.
ETYMOLOGY:	Perhaps Anglo-Norman aloper, to run away from one's husband with a lover, from Middle Dutch ontlopen, to run away : ont-, away from, along; see ant- in Appendix I + lopen, to run.
OTHER FORMS:	e·lopement —NOUN e·loper —NOUN


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