- intransitive verb
- : to run away secretly with the intention of getting married usually without parental consent //… Waterman was a peevish child who grew into a defiant teenager, eloped at 18 largely to shock his father, and then—far too young—was a father himself. — Elizabeth Gilbert: to run away from one's spouse with a lover //"… when they had been married nearly seven years, and were within a few weeks of the time when the brother's death would have adjusted all, she eloped with a younger man, and left him." — Charles Dickens
- intransitive verb
- : to run away secretly with the intention of getting married usually without parental consent //… Waterman was a peevish child who grew into a defiant teenager, eloped at 18 largely to shock his father, and then—far too young—was a father himself. — Elizabeth Gilbert: to run away from one's spouse with a lover //"… when they had been married nearly seven years, and were within a few weeks of the time when the brother's death would have adjusted all, she eloped with a younger man, and left him." — Charles Dickens
saddlebred — MW · Shobdo