Definitions for elopes

elopes e·lope

Spelling: [ih-lohp]
IPA: /ɪˈloʊp/

Elopes is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 100 anagrams from letters in elopes (eelops).

Definitions for elopes

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 elopes

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

Examples for elopes

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.

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

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.

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!

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.'

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

Word Value for elopes
Scrable

7

Words with friends

9

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