# If the word 'Elope' had an antonym, what would it be?

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> [@Wrenching\_Spanners](#):
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> I think of eloping as running off to get married. Running off to get divorced? Isn’t that a Nevada Divorce?

In the 1939 George Cukor film _The Women_, they called it “getting RENOvated.”

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Well, just to be a spoilsport I did a little (very little) research and these are antonyms for elope (per [Antonymsfor.com](http://Antonymsfor.com)): wait, stay, remain, continue, face, meet.

YMMV.

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