emigrate

a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.

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emigrate (ˈɛmɪˌɡreɪt)

—vb
	(intr) Compare immigrate to leave one place or country, esp one's native country, in order to settle in another

[C18: from Latin ēmīgrāre, from mīgrāre to depart, migrate]

'emigratory

—*adj*

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emigrate

1778, from L. emigrat-, pp. stem of emigrare (see emigration). Related: Emigrated; emigrating.

Example sentences

For this purpose a mere bare permission to emigrate into the country will not

suffice.

To have the freedom to emigrate anywhere and restrict the freedom of those who

chose to enter the country.

Disillusion with what the country of their birth had inflicted on their

livelihoods, my parents eventually chose to emigrate.

It is overwhelmingly the young, motivated, hardworking people that emigrate.

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Matching Quote

"To live and die amongst foreigners may seem less absurd than to live persecuted or tortured by one's fellow countrymen.... But to emigrate is always to dismantle the centre of the world, and so to move into a lost, disoriented one of fragments."

-John Berger