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单词 elope
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Definition of elope in English:

elope

verb ɪˈləʊpəˈloʊp
[no object]
  • Run away secretly in order to get married.

    later he eloped with one of the housemaids
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Count Baldwin I of Flanders eloped with Judith, daughter of King Charles the Bald of the west Franks, who was by the age of 16 the widow of two kings of Wessex.
    • I'm beginning to understand some of what my mother must have gone through after I eloped with Rolf.
    • Although Caroli never ‘escaped her mother's domination,’ she did succeed in leaving home when she eloped with a man she had ‘dated for two weeks.’
    • Tell me honestly, would you truly befriend your enemies after discovering their kid eloped with your child, and then made this whole chaotic catastrophe that led to their deaths?
    • But Avon was long gone, having eloped with her high-school love interest, David Wrighter.
    • ‘Of course,’ said Cyrvil, recalling her own Mother's lady-in-waiting who had eloped with a knight from another Great Isle.
    • She remembered the solitary week his clinic had lasted before he had eloped with the superintendent's wife.
    • One long sequence in which she tells Charles the story of how she eloped with her husband, and the consequences that ensued, is a minor tour de force of sustained emotional expression.
    • ‘I eloped with John Bardy, the stableboy you fired,’ Annabelle said coldly.
    • Never particularly happy in his home life, at the age of 19 Shelley eloped with his first love, Harriet Grove, who bore him a daughter two years later.
    • Today she was complaining about her grand-daughter who had eloped with the washer-man.
    • He eloped with a daughter of the duke of Richmond in 1744 and they were a devoted couple, dying within days of one another.
    • After being expelled from various convent schools and working briefly as a model, she eloped with an aspiring poet when she was 18.
    • You just disappeared and Eileen told me that you had eloped with a man you'd been seeing on the sly.
    • She eloped with a Greek, so we're going to Greece to meet the in-laws.
    • By the early 1950s, however, she had eloped with the Czech-Irish writer Ernest Gebler and by the time her first book was published, she had left for London, where she has lived ever since.
    • So she eloped with a guy with bad anger management problems so they could start a new life… with no money, no plan, and absolutely nowhere to go.
    • Hogarth, his sometime pupil, eloped with his daughter in 1729.
    • As Elizabeth Linley, before she eloped with Sheridan around 1773, the sitter was a professional singer and member of a celebrated musical family in Bath.
    Synonyms
    run away to marry, run off/away together, slip away, sneak off, steal away
    run off/away with a lover

Derivatives

  • elopement

  • noun ɪˈləʊpm(ə)nt
    • Written in 1909 from his father's Dublin house during the couple's first separation since their elopement, the content is remarkable given Joyce's known distaste for spoken obscenity.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • However, at the end of the 1960s, elopements started to increase.
      • The Bertram sisters' elopements are the result of the flirtations that occur during rehearsals for amateur theatricals at Mansfield Park.
      • While genuine elopements are now rare, the local registry office, which charges £148 for a marriage licence, now injects around £500,000 a year into the local economy.
      • But true love was never all excuse for an unapproved marriage, and elopements frequently caused heartache and family break-up, particularly in aristocratic circles.
  • eloper

  • noun
    • It began with a trickle of English elopers sneaking across the Border to get married at Gretna.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Indeed, before 1849, steamers crossing the channel often contained young Irish elopers who made the 21 mile journey in order to be married in Portpatrick's 17th century church.
      • The long time friends and potential elopers begin to notice odd happenings around their school and town.

Origin

Late 16th century (in the general sense 'abscond, run away'): from Anglo-Norman French aloper, perhaps related to leap.

Rhymes

aslope, cope, dope, grope, hope, interlope, lope, mope, nope, ope, pope, rope, scope, soap, taupe, tope, trope
 
 

Definition of elope in US English:

elope

verbəˈlōpəˈloʊp
[no object]
  • Run away secretly in order to get married, especially without parental consent.

    later he eloped with one of the maids
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Today she was complaining about her grand-daughter who had eloped with the washer-man.
    • You just disappeared and Eileen told me that you had eloped with a man you'd been seeing on the sly.
    • Tell me honestly, would you truly befriend your enemies after discovering their kid eloped with your child, and then made this whole chaotic catastrophe that led to their deaths?
    • I'm beginning to understand some of what my mother must have gone through after I eloped with Rolf.
    • Although Caroli never ‘escaped her mother's domination,’ she did succeed in leaving home when she eloped with a man she had ‘dated for two weeks.’
    • One long sequence in which she tells Charles the story of how she eloped with her husband, and the consequences that ensued, is a minor tour de force of sustained emotional expression.
    • Never particularly happy in his home life, at the age of 19 Shelley eloped with his first love, Harriet Grove, who bore him a daughter two years later.
    • As Elizabeth Linley, before she eloped with Sheridan around 1773, the sitter was a professional singer and member of a celebrated musical family in Bath.
    • He eloped with a daughter of the duke of Richmond in 1744 and they were a devoted couple, dying within days of one another.
    • ‘Of course,’ said Cyrvil, recalling her own Mother's lady-in-waiting who had eloped with a knight from another Great Isle.
    • Hogarth, his sometime pupil, eloped with his daughter in 1729.
    • After being expelled from various convent schools and working briefly as a model, she eloped with an aspiring poet when she was 18.
    • Count Baldwin I of Flanders eloped with Judith, daughter of King Charles the Bald of the west Franks, who was by the age of 16 the widow of two kings of Wessex.
    • But Avon was long gone, having eloped with her high-school love interest, David Wrighter.
    • ‘I eloped with John Bardy, the stableboy you fired,’ Annabelle said coldly.
    • So she eloped with a guy with bad anger management problems so they could start a new life… with no money, no plan, and absolutely nowhere to go.
    • She remembered the solitary week his clinic had lasted before he had eloped with the superintendent's wife.
    • She eloped with a Greek, so we're going to Greece to meet the in-laws.
    • By the early 1950s, however, she had eloped with the Czech-Irish writer Ernest Gebler and by the time her first book was published, she had left for London, where she has lived ever since.
    Synonyms
    run away to marry, run away together, run off together, slip away, sneak off, steal away

Origin

Late 16th century (in the general sense ‘abscond, run away’): from Anglo-Norman French aloper, perhaps related to leap.

 
 
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