Emigrate

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  • intransitive verb. To leave one country or region to settle in another.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Having wandered forth; wandering; roving.
  • To quit one country, state, or region and settle in another; remove from one country or region to another for the purpose of residence: as, Europeans emigrate to America; the inhabitants of New England emigrate to the Western States.
  • Synonyms Immigrate, etc. See migrate.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • intransitive verb. To remove from one country or State to another, for the purpose of residence; to migrate from home.
  • adjective. Migratory; roving.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. To leave the country in which one lives, especially one's native country, in order to reside elsewhere.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. leave one's country of residence for a new one
    • Word Usage
    "This is like arguing that having laws against murder and rape will only make murderers and rapists emigrate from the country."
    Antonyms
    Words with the opposite meaning
    immigrate  
    Form
    emigrated  emigrating  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    migrate  transmigrate  
    Hyponym
    Words that are more specific
    expatriate  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    depart  depart  deport  exile  expatriate  
    verb-form
    emigrated  emigrates  emigrating  
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