Definition of "elope" []

• To run away with a lover, especially with the intention of getting married. (verb-intransitive)
• To run away; abscond. (verb-intransitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "The old-fashioned meaning of the word elope was used to describe a married woman who ran away with her lover."
• "As revealed by this How Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt's Marriage Has Ruined My Life The Hills dashed off to Mexico to "elope" (luckily Us Weekly happened to be vacationing on the same beach and had their cameras with them)."
• "I just find it sweet and silly how children so young could think that they could escape to a foreign country and 'elope' together."