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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of elope.

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Examples

  • Three years since they had eloped from a tiny Texas town, run off to join the Navy and start their life.

    CROSSING BRIDGES • by Sarah Black 2008

  • The reputed father having eloped from the Port to evade Justice — an order was issued by the Court to detain in the hands of Mr Wm Rideout a ballance of £4..15..4 due to the said Edwd.

    Gutenber-e Help Page 2005

  • Palin eloped with her high school sweetheart, Todd Palin, on August 29, 1988, and helped run his family’s commercial fishing business.

    Five People Born on February 11 | myFiveBest 2010

  • Especially since Sarah herself, 'eloped' with her hubby out of high school.

    Election Central Sunday Roundup 2009

  • Especially since Sarah herself, 'eloped' with her hubby out of high school.

    Election Central Sunday Roundup 2009

  • The student's parents approached the KU Police and complained that their son "eloped" along with a teacher and later got married.

    Zee News : India National 2010

  • The student's parents approached the KU Police and complained that their son "eloped" along with a teacher and later got married.

    Zee News : India National 2010

  • But Sarah Palin's track record in herself being unwed and pregnant (she tries to minimize it off by claiming that she and her now-husband "eloped"), and then her own 16-y. o. daughter getting knocked up while being left with grammamma (mommy and daddy are off doing their own thing) is a subject which is ripe for discussion since mommy, i.e.,

    The Litterbox 2008

  • "eloped" with only eight dollars in the world; together with all the agonies of their parents, as imagined by the sympathetic lady.

    Love's Pilgrimage Upton Sinclair 1923

  • -- Law Officers 'Opinions, 1778-83, No. 25.] 'Prentices who "eloped" or ran away from their masters, and then entered voluntarily, could not be reclaimed by any known process at law if they were over eighteen years of age.

    The Press-Gang Afloat and Ashore

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