Wordnet 3.0
VERB (1)
1.
leave one's country of residence for a new one;
- Example: "Many people had to emigrate during the Nazi period"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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.
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Forced to emigrate in a body to America. --Macaulay.
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They [the Huns] were emigrating from Tartary into
Europe in the time of the Goths. --J. H.
Newman.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Emigrate \Em"i*grate\, a.
Migratory; roving. [Obs.]
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
emigrate
v 1: leave one's country of residence for a new one; "Many
people had to emigrate during the Nazi period" [ant:
immigrate]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
25 Moby Thesaurus words for "emigrate":
depart, deport, exile, expatriate, flit, forsake, go from home,
immigrate, in-migrate, intermigrate, leave, leave home,
leave the country, migrate, move, out-migrate, quit, relocate,
remigrate, resettle, run, swarm, take wing, transmigrate, trek