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em⋅i⋅grate

[em-i-greyt]
–verb (used without object), -grat⋅ed, -grat⋅ing.
to leave one country or region to settle in another; migrate: to emigrate from Ireland to Australia.

Origin:
1770–80; < L ēmīgrātus moved away (ptp. of ēmīgrāre), equiv. to ē- e- + mīgrātus (mīgr- remove + ātus -ate 1 )


em⋅i⋅gra⋅tive, adjective


See migrate.
em·i·grate   (ěm'ĭ-grāt')   
intr.v.   em·i·grat·ed, em·i·grat·ing, em·i·grates
To leave one country or region to settle in another. See Usage Note at migrate.

[Latin ēmigrāre, ēmigrāt- : ē-, ex-, ex- + migrāre, to move; see mei-1 in Indo-European roots.]
em'i·gra'tion (ěm'ĭ-grā'shən) n.

Emigrate

Em"i*grate\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Emigrated; p. pr. & vb. n. Emigrating.] [L. emigratus, p. p. of emigrare to remove, emigrate; e out + migrare to migrate. See Migrate.] To remove from one country or State to another, for the purpose of residence; to migrate from home.

Forced to emigrate in a body to America. --Macaulay.

They [the Huns] were emigrating from Tartary into Europe in the time of the Goths. --J. H. Newman.

Emigrate

Em"i*grate\, a. Migratory; roving. [Obs.]
Language Translation for : emigrate
Spanish: emigrar,
German: auswandern,
Japanese: 移住する
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