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emigrate

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Scrabble points
11
Words With Friends
13
Letters
8
Pronunciation
/ˈɛmɪɡɹeɪt/
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/ˈɛmɪɡɹeɪt/ · /ˈɪmɪɡɹeɪt/

Definition of emigrate

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

verb

  1. (intransitive)To leave the country in which one lives, especially one's native country, in order to reside elsewhere.
    “Forced to emigrate in a body to America.”
    “They [the Huns] were emigrating from Tartary into Europe in the time of the Goths.”
    “Her family was planning to emigrate to the U.S. from Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of Congo) and couldn't afford school fees.”

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Etymology

From Latin emigratus, perfect passive participle of emigro (“to move away, remove, depart from a place”), from ex- (“out of, from”) + migro (“to move, remove, depart”).

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