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Definition of "emigrate" []

  • To leave one country or region to settle in another. See Usage Note at migrate. (verb-intransitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "emigrate" in a sentence
  • "This is like arguing that having laws against murder and rape will only make murderers and rapists emigrate from the country."
  • "Only the most horrifying convergence of sheer monster power ever to emigrate from the old world."
  • "The country from where most people emigrate is Morocco, which in 2005 had more then 3 million Moroccan citizens registered at the Moroccan consulates abroad."