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em·i·grate

emigrate

pronunciation:
e m greIt
part of speech: intransitive verb
inflections: emigrated, emigrates, emigrating
definition: to leave one country or region, usu. the country of origin, in order to settle in another.
Her ancestors emigrated from Ireland during the famine and came to the United States.
derivation: emigrative (adj.)