emigrate
Pronunciation Verb
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Pronunciation Verb
emigrate (emigrates, present participle emigrating; past and past participle emigrated)
- (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.
- French: émigrer
- German: auswandern, emigrieren
- Italian: emigrare
- Portuguese: emigrar
- Russian: эмигри́ровать
- Spanish: emigrar
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