Elope vs. Marry — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Elope and Marry
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Elope
To run away with a lover, especially with the intention of getting married.
Marry
To join in marriage
They have been married for 25 years.
Elope
To run away; abscond.
Marry
To take as a spouse
She married him two years ago.
Elope
To run away from home with a paramour.
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Marry
To give in marriage
They married their daughter to a nobleman.
Elope
To run away secretly for the purpose of getting married with one's intended spouse; to marry in a quick or private fashion, especially without a public period of engagement.
Marry
To perform a marriage ceremony for
The rabbi married the couple.
Elope
To run away from home (for any reason).
Marry
To obtain by marriage
Marry money.
Elope
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.
Marry
(Nautical) To join (two ropes) end to end, as by splicing or seizing.
Elope
Run away secretly with one's beloved;
The young couple eloped and got married in Las Vegas
Marry
To unite in a close, usually permanent way
"His material marries the domestic and the exotic" (Clifton Fadiman).
Marry
To enter into marriage; wed
They married in their twenties.
Marry
To combine or blend agreeably
Let the flavors marry overnight.
Marry
Used as an exclamation of surprise or emphasis.
Marry
(intransitive) To enter into the conjugal or connubial state; to take a husband or a wife.
Neither of her daughters showed any desire to marry.
Marry
(intransitive) To enter into marriage with one another.
Jack and Jenny married soon after they met.
Marry
(transitive) To take as husband or wife.
In some cultures, it is acceptable for an uncle to marry his niece.
Marry
(transitive) To arrange for the marriage of; to give away as wife or husband.
He was eager to marry his daughter to a nobleman.
Marry
(transitive) To unite in wedlock or matrimony; to perform the ceremony of joining spouses; to bring about a marital union according to the laws or customs of a place.
A justice of the peace will marry Jones and Smith.
His daughter was married some five years ago to a tailor's apprentice.
Marry
To join or connect. See also marry up.
There’s a big gap here. These two parts don’t marry properly.
I can’t connect it, because the plug doesn’t marry with the socket.
Marry
To unite; to join together into a close union.
The attempt to marry medieval plainsong with speed metal produced interesting results.
Marry
(nautical) To place (two ropes) alongside each other so that they may be grasped and hauled on at the same time.
Marry
(nautical) To join (two ropes) end to end so that both will pass through a block.
Marry
(obsolete) A term of asseveration: indeed!, in truth!
Marry
To unite in wedlock or matrimony; to perform the ceremony of joining, as a man and a woman, for life; to constitute (a man and a woman) husband and wife according to the laws or customs of the place.
Tell him that he shall marry the couple himself.
Marry
To join according to law, (a man) to a woman as his wife, or (a woman) to a man as her husband. See the Note to def. 4.
A woman who had been married to her twenty-fifth husband, and being now a widow, was prohibited to marry.
Marry
To dispose of in wedlock; to give away as wife.
Mæcenas took the liberty to tell him [Augustus] that he must either marry his daughter [Julia] to Agrippa, or take away his life.
Marry
To take for husband or wife. See the Note below.
They got him [the Duke of Monmouth] . . . to declare in writing, that the last king [Charles II.] told him he was never married to his mother.
Marry
Figuratively, to unite in the closest and most endearing relation.
Turn, O backsliding children, saith the Lord; for I am married unto you.
Marry
To enter into the conjugal or connubial state; to take a husband or a wife.
I will, therefore, that the younger women marry.
Marry
Indeed! in truth! - a term of asseveration said to have been derived from the practice of swearing by the Virgin Mary.
Marry
Take in marriage
Marry
Perform a marriage ceremony;
The minister married us on Saturday
We were wed the following week
The couple got spliced on Hawaii
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