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elope

verb as in run away to be married

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In one trajectory, Helen makes the virtuous decision to avoid eloping with the impatient Jed; she is rewarded for her sacrifice with two decades of spinsterhood—in this universe, a tragic outcome.

He is engaged to his longtime girlfriend with plans to elope.

William eventually left Suffolk and wrote to the Marten family to say he had eloped with Maria to the Isle of Wight.

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When Abraham read the script, he really got upset because up until that time, he thought that it was Chris’ idea to elope and that Chris had corrupted his beautiful daughter.

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Then he got an offer from a Christian label in Nashville; he moved again and immediately met a woman with whom he ended up eloping.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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