elope
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++LDOCE 5++e·lope /ɪˈləʊp $ ɪˈloʊp/ verb [intransitive] MARRYto leave your home secretly in order to get married 私奔 My parents didn’t approve of the marriage, so we eloped. 我父母不赞成这桩婚事，所以我们就私奔了。 —elopement noun [countable, uncountable]→ See Verb table
Examples from the Corpus
elope• If my father won't agree to the marriage, we'll just have to elope.• A year later, on September 3,1946, they eloped.• Even a year later, she could not accept the fact that her only daughter had eloped.• Or were you going to elope?• They were unable to marry because of their different stations in life, and so eloped and fled to western Ireland.• Paris was mooted but when Henrietta could not find her passport they eloped to Edinburgh.• But none, I assure you, of an age or inclination to elope with an adolescent foreigner!• Mary fell in love with Shelley and eloped with him to the Continent in 1814.• Just today one of the missionary school youth was about to elope with his new amour.Origin elope (1500-1600) Anglo-French aloper “to run away”e·lope verbChineseSyllable
to in leave to secretly your home Corpus order
elope
e‧lope /ɪˈləʊp $ ɪˈloʊp/
verb [intransitive]
My parents didn’t approve of the marriage, so we eloped.
—elopement noun [uncountable and countable]
e‧lope /ɪˈləʊp $ ɪˈloʊp/
verb [intransitive] Date: 1500-1600
Language: Anglo-French
Origin: aloper 'to run away'
to leave your home secretly in order to get married:Language: Anglo-French
Origin: aloper 'to run away'
—elopement noun [uncountable and countable]