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To run away, or escape privately, from the place or station to which one is bound by duty; -- said especially of a woman or a man, either married or unmarried, who runs away with a paramour or a sweetheart.

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  1. v. t. To run away, or escape privately, from the place or station to which one is bound by duty; -- said especially of a woman or a man, either married or unmarried, who runs away with a paramour or a sweetheart.
  2. v. run away secretly with one's beloved
  3. To run away, or escape privately, from the place or station to which one is bound by duty; -- said especially of a woman or a man, either married or unmarried, who runs away with a paramour or a sweetheart. Great numbers of them [the women] have eloped from their allegiance. Addison.
  4. To run away, or escape privately, from the place or station towhich one is bound by duty; -- said especially of a woman or a man,either married or unmarried, who runs away with a paramour or asweetheart.Great numbers of them [the women] have eloped from their allegiance.Addison.
  5. v:100 v. run away secretly with one's beloved