emigrate
/EM-ih-grayt/verbto leave one's own country to settle permanently in another
“Her grandparents emigrated from Naples in 1952.”
- Synonyms
- depart, relocate, move abroad
- Antonyms
- immigrate, remain
- Memory hook
- Emigrate: Exit a country; immigrate: come In.
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