elope

verb

Definition of elopenext
as in to escape

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Recent Examples of elope The couple became engaged in January 2008 and eloped in April of that year, marrying in a private ceremony in Los Angeles, according to E! — Edward Segarra, USA Today, 14 May 2026 Intimacy was everything for Alexandria Thompson, 30, and Ashwani Srivastava, 39, who are planning to elope in Las Vegas in May 2026 before their March 2027 wedding. — Kristy Alpert, Vogue, 8 May 2026 Long enamoured with Italy, the couple eloped in Puglia in 2019, later setting out to translate the same sense of romance, craftsmanship, and unhurried beauty to the folds of the Noosa hinterland. — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 Apr. 2026 However, if a board merited a deeper dive (say, a tester fell in love with a certain shape and wanted to elope), longer testing was par for the course. — Drew Zieff, Outside, 7 Nov. 2025 See All Example Sentences for elope
Recent Examples of Synonyms for elope
  1. escape
  2. abscond
  3. lam
  4. decamp
  5. scram
  6. get out
  7. scarper
Verb
  • The Kansas City Royals cannot escape the injury bug this season.
    — Jaylon Thompson, Kansas City Star, 22 July 2026
  • Instead, forecasters are monitoring a recurrent coronal hole, an area where the sun’s magnetic field opens into space and allows faster solar wind to escape.
    — Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 21 July 2026
Definition of escape
Verb
  • Cloth has faced several suits from investors who accused him of absconding with their money.
    — Gene Maddaus, Variety, 29 July 2026
  • Ciampa absconded one of the spiked hockey pucks and made Jericho bleed.
    — Alfred Konuwa, Forbes.com, 27 July 2026
Definition of abscond
Verb
  • No studio would finance the feature, about a whorehouse exhibitionist who lams it after being framed for murder — so director Melvin Van Peebles financed it himself with a boost from Bill Cosby, who gave him a $50,000 loan.
    — Andrew Lawrence, Peoplemag, 17 Feb. 2024
  • One of those classic films that’s as good as its reputation (and maybe even better), Billy Wilder’s high-spirited comedy stars Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon as jazz musicians who have to lam it after witnessing a mob crime.
    — Keith Phipps, Rolling Stone, 1 May 2023
Definition of lam
Verb
  • But when academics decamp to AI labs or spend more of their time working on their own companies, universities are left with fewer professors to teach the next generation of researchers.
    — Lila Shroff, The Atlantic, 21 July 2026
  • Should everyone on the Upper East Side just decamp to the Hamptons while this gets worked out?
    — Matthew Sedacca, Curbed, 15 July 2026
Definition of decamp
Verb
  • The chicks reportedly also told Fiona the squirrel to scram—just like mom.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 4 June 2026
  • As of now, one man sits on a small dock off each island, telling onlookers to scram.
    — Danielle Paquette, Washington Post, 12 Dec. 2019
Definition of scram
Verb
  • As the agent got out and struggled to arrest Stanley, Morrow approached and touched the arresting agent’s shoulder, video shows.
    — Julia Coin, Charlotte Observer, 1 Aug. 2026
  • Aldis got out of it by sending Gunther head-first into the turnbuckle.
    — Blake Oestriecher, Forbes.com, 1 Aug. 2026
Definition of get out
Verb
  • Taylor Tomlinson will host After Midnight, the show that is replacing The Late Late Show now that James Corden has scarpered off to old Blighty.
    — Vulture, Vulture, 1 Nov. 2023
  • Idrissa Gueye has scarpered, but that void was instantly filled by Mainz midfielder Jean-Philippe Gbamin - while Moise Kean, goodness knows how, has signed from Juventus to sharpen things up front.
    — SI.com, SI.com, 5 Aug. 2019
Definition of scarper

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