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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. [1913 Webster] Forced to emigrate in a body to America. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster] They [the Huns] were emigrating from Tartary into Europe in the time of the Goths. --J. H. Newman. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Emigrate \Em"i*grate\, a. Migratory; roving. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
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