EMIGRATE

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Present simple: I / you / we / they emigrate ... he / she / it emigrates

Past simple: emigrated

Past participle: emigrated

-ing form: emigrating

Meaning:

Leave one's country of residence for a new one

Example:

Many people had to emigrate during the Nazi period

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "emigrate" is one way to...):

migrate; transmigrate (move from one country or region to another and settle there)

"Emigrate" entails doing...:

go away; go forth; leave (go away from a place)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "emigrate"):

expatriate (move away from one's native country and adopt a new residence abroad)

Sentence frames:

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Antonym:

immigrate (come into a new country and change residency)

Derivation:

emigrant (someone who leaves one country to settle in another)

emigration (migration from a place (especially migration from your native country in order to settle in another))