emigrate
from
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}]
from
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]
from
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
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