0 past simple and past participle of elope
1 to leave home secretly in order to get married without the permission of your parents:
Firstly 56 per cent (157) of the husbands denied their credit to wives who had eloped.
The maestro overhears gossip and immediately jumps to a skewed conclusion: the lovers have eloped, treacherously.
As a result, many young couples could not afford a proper marriage and eloped.
Eloped couples sincerely wished to marry rather than simply cohabitate, and only bridewealth could transform an illicit union into marriage.
Young lovers, watching their hopes of marriage fade, eloped, hoping to convince the woman's father to accept a reduced bridewealth or one paid in installments over time.
Her daughter eloped with her second husband, or so it was alleged.
As a young woman she had eloped with him, naively attracted to the romance of loving a woodland fugitive and sharing his life.
Her parents forbade her to marry, but she eloped.
