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elope
 
SYLLABICATION:e·lope
PRONUNCIATION:  -lp
INTRANSITIVE VERB:Inflected forms: e·loped, e·lop·ing, e·lopes
1. To run away with a lover, especially with the intention of getting married. 2. To run away; abscond.
ETYMOLOGY:Perhaps Anglo-Norman aloper, to run away from one's husband with a lover, from Middle Dutch ontlopen, to run away : ont-, away from, along; see ant- in Appendix I + lopen, to run.
OTHER FORMS:e·lopement —NOUN
e·loper —NOUN
 
 
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