eloped

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  1. intransitive verb To run away with a lover, especially with the intention of getting married.
  2. intransitive verb To run away; abscond.

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  • She also pointed out the window from which a certain heiress had eloped, and by doing so had carried the hall and lands into the family of the present owners, and told me that Mrs. Radcliffe, shortly before the publication of her Mysteries of Udolpho , had visited Haddon, and had sat at that window busily writing for a long time. —  What I Remember, Volume 2
  • Though the young pair had not eloped, they had caused the widow considerable distress. —  Chase, Loretta - Knave's Wager
  • The first post asked if Sarah Palin properly took her pre-natal pills and the second post had to make known that eight months after Todd and Sarah Palin eloped, their first child was born. —  Pat Gray
  • Kid wondered Lordy's eloped, and they've got to hunt for a new Latin teacher," was Patty's interpretation As the three girls left the table, the Dowager waylaid Harriet Step into my study a moment. —  Just Patty
  • Since I'd held Catherine in my arms in her apartment just before we'd eloped, I'd spent my time in the company of Nurse Farrow who held no emotional appeal to me, and the rest of my female company had been Mekstroms whose handholding might twist off a wrist if they got a thrill out of it. —  Highways in Hiding
 

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