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EMIGRATE
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I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they emigrate ... he / she / it emigrates
Past simple: emigrated
Past participle: emigrated
-ing form: emigrating
Sense 1
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:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP
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))
