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emigrate
What does emigrate mean?
emigrate (verb): to leave the country in which one lives, especially one's native country, in order to reside elsewhere.
Definition: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
How do you use emigrate in a sentence?
- People emigrate for many reasons. (Tatoeba sentence #11489639 by Amastan, CC BY 2.0 FR)
How do you pronounce emigrate?
/ˈɛməˌɡɹeɪt/ (IPA, American English). The app reads every word aloud.
Where does emigrate come from?
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”).
Etymology: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Words related to emigrate
From Princeton WordNet 3.1.
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What does “emigrate” mean?
to incline, deviate, or bend, from a vertical position; to be in a position thus inclining or deviating
Not quite: that's what lean means.
to cause (liquid, or liquid-like substance) to flow in a stream, either out of a container or into it
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to leave the country in which one lives, especially one's native country, in order to reside elsewhere
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to change spoken words or written text (of a book, document, movie, etc.) from one language to another
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