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elopes

  • present tense form
    of elope (3rd person singular).
    elope

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While giving a gift when a couple in your life elopes is a nice gesture, wedding etiquette experts say it’s not required.

From Slate ● Mar. 24, 2023

Her 18-year-old sister, Leah, is secretly dating a Hindu boy whose family emigrated from India; when Ari’s and Leah’s parents refuse to accept the relationship, Leah elopes with Raj and disappears.

From New York Times ● Nov. 24, 2021

A pilot woos a woman doubling for an heiress, then elopes with the heiress.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 4, 2020

Bennett's most famous novel The Old Wives' Tale is about two sisters one of whom elopes to a scandalous life in France and the other who stays at home running the family draper's shop.

From BBC ● Jun. 22, 2014

Now assuming that a wife is abducted or elopes, it is, I think, on the same persons that the duty of aiding the injured husband would fall.

From Kinship Organisations and Group Marriage in Australia by Northcote Whitridge Thomas