emigrate

• POS: Verb (intransitive)
• HYPHEN: em=i=grate

CIDE DICTIONARY

emigrate, v. i. [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."  [1913 Webster]
"They [the Huns] were emigrating from Tartary into Europe in the time of the Goths."  [1913 Webster]

emigrate, a. 

 Migratory; roving.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

emigrate, v.
1 intr. leave one's own country to settle in another.
2 tr. assist (a person) to emigrate.

Derivative

emigration n. emigratory adj.

Etymology

L emigrare emigrat- (as E-, migrare depart)

THESAURUS

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

ROGET THESAURUS

emigrate

Journey

VB travel, journey, course, take a journey, go a journey, take a walk, go out for walk, have a run, take the air, flit, take wing, migrate, emigrate, trek, rove, prowl, roam, range, patrol, pace up and down, traverse, scour the country, traverse the country, peragrate, circumambulate, perambulate, nomadize, wander, ramble, stroll, saunter, hover, go one's rounds, straggle, gad, gad about, expatiate, walk, march, step, tread, pace, plod, wend, go by shank's mare, promenade, trudge, tramp, stalk, stride, straddle, strut, foot it, hoof it, stump, bundle, bowl along, toddle, paddle, tread a path, take horse, ride, drive, trot, amble, canter, prance, fisk, frisk, caracoler, caracole, gallop, embark, board, set out, hit the road, get going, get underway, peg on, jog on, wag on, shuffle on, stir one's stumps, bend one's steps, bend one's course, make one's way, find one's way, wend one's way, pick one's way, pick one's way, thread one's way, plow one's way, slide, glide, coast, skim, skate, march in procession, file on, defile, go to, repair to, resort to, hie to, betake oneself to.