emigrate

verb
🔊/ˈemɪɡreɪt/
🔊/ˈemɪɡreɪt/
[intransitive]
Verb Forms
present simple I / you / we / they emigrate
🔊/ˈemɪɡreɪt/
🔊/ˈemɪɡreɪt/
he / she / it emigrates
🔊/ˈemɪɡreɪts/
🔊/ˈemɪɡreɪts/
past simple emigrated
🔊/ˈemɪɡreɪtɪd/
🔊/ˈemɪɡreɪtɪd/
past participle emigrated
🔊/ˈemɪɡreɪtɪd/
🔊/ˈemɪɡreɪtɪd/
-ing form emigrating
🔊/ˈemɪɡreɪtɪŋ/
🔊/ˈemɪɡreɪtɪŋ/
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  1. emigrate (from…) (to…) to leave your own country to go and live permanently in another country移居国外;移民
    • The family left Czechoslovakia in 1968 and emigrated to America.一家人于1968年离开捷克斯洛伐克,移民到美国。
    • Many people who emigrated experienced poverty and racism when they arrived.许多移居国外的人抵达时都感到贫穷和种族主义。
    • My grandparents emigrated from Vietnam to the US in the 1980s.我的祖父母在20世纪80年代从越南移民到了美国。
    compare immigrateTopics Social issuesb2
    Word Originlate 18th cent.: from Latin emigrat- ‘emigrated’, from the verb emigrare, from e- (variant of ex-) ‘out of’ + migrare ‘migrate’.