emigrate
Pronunciation
  • (RP, America) IPA: /ˈɛmɪɡɹeɪt/
  • (pin-pen) IPA: /ˈɪmɪɡɹeɪt/
Verb

emigrate (emigrates, present participle emigrating; past and past participle emigrated)

  1. (intransitive) To leave the country in which one lives, especially one's native country, in order to reside elsewhere.
    • 1911, Thomas Babington Macaulay, “[https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/1911_Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica/Goldsmith,_Oliver Goldsmith, Oliver]”, in 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica:
      Forced to emigrate in a body to America.
    • They [the Huns] were emigrating from Tartary into Europe in the time of the Goths.
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