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Emigrate


EM'IGRATE, verb intransitive [Latin emigro; e and migro, to migrate.]

To quit one country, state or region and settle in another; to remove from one country or state to another for the purpose of residence. Germans, Swiss, Irish and Scotch, emigrate in great numbers, to America. Inhabitants of New England emigrate to the Western States.