Definitions for elope

elope e·lope

Spelling: [ih-lohp]
IPA: /ɪˈloʊp/

Elope is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 42 anagrams from letters in elope (eelop).

Definitions for elope

verb (used without object)

  1. to run off secretly to be married, usually without the consent or knowledge of one's parents.
  2. to run away with a lover.
  3. to leave without permission or notification; escape:
  4. (of a person with a mental disorder or cognitive impairment) to leave or run away from a safe area or safe premises.

Origin of elope

1590-1600; Middle English *alopen to run away (whence Anglo-French aloper). See a-3, lope

Examples for elope

Why don't you elope with some one—the dark, clinging girl—and let me free?

On Dec. 22, 1799, Sands told her cousins that she would be leaving to elope with a fellow boarder named Levi Weeks that night.

Well if one is on his way to elope—it is all the same:—one must have a companion, if not the one, then the other.'

I wanted to elope, but Charles really wants to have a party for our friends.

You promised Countess Rostova to marry her and were about to elope with her, is that so?

The man who had induced her to elope with him sat at dice with a gentleman from London!

Daughters who elope and dare to choose their own husbands are also considered dishonorable.

Yes, that's it, she means to elope with him, but what am I to do?

Goujet was an odd fellow, proposing to elope, just the way it happens in novels.

"Perhaps she will elope," the doctor said to his wife, humorously.

Word Value for elope
Scrable

7

Words with friends

9

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