ELOPING Antonyms

• a man's courting of a woman; seeking the affections of a woman (usually with the hope of marriage)

• a hostile meeting of opposing military forces in the course of a war

• a meeting arranged in advance

• a mutual promise to marry

• the act of giving someone a job

• employment for performers or performing groups that lasts for a limited period of time

• contact by fitting together

• the act of sharing in the activities of a group

• the state of being a married couple voluntarily joined for life (or until divorce)

• the ceremony or sacrament of marriage

• the social event at which the ceremony of marriage is performed

• of trade unions

• an organization of employees formed to bargain with the employer

• the United States (especially the northern states during the American Civil War)

• the act of pairing a male and female for reproductive purposes

• the state of being joined or united or linked

• the state of being a married couple voluntarily joined for life (or until divorce)

• healing process involving the growing together of the edges of a wound or the growing together of broken bones

• a political unit formed from previously independent people or organizations

• a set containing all and only the members of two or more given sets

• the occurrence of a uniting of separate parts

• a device on a national flag emblematic of the union of two or more sovereignties (typically in the upper inner corner)

• the act of making or becoming a single unit

• being of or having to do with the northern United States and those loyal to the Union during the American Civil War

• the social event at which the ceremony of marriage is performed

• the act of marrying; the nuptial ceremony

• a party of people at a wedding

• the state of being a married couple voluntarily joined for life (or until divorce)

• take in marriage; married

• perform a marriage ceremony