immigrate

verb
🔊/ˈɪmɪɡreɪt/
🔊/ˈɪmɪɡreɪt/
[intransitive] (especially North American English)
Verb Forms
present simple I / you / we / they immigrate
🔊/ˈɪmɪɡreɪt/
🔊/ˈɪmɪɡreɪt/
he / she / it immigrates
🔊/ˈɪmɪɡreɪts/
🔊/ˈɪmɪɡreɪts/
past simple immigrated
🔊/ˈɪmɪɡreɪtɪd/
🔊/ˈɪmɪɡreɪtɪd/
past participle immigrated
🔊/ˈɪmɪɡreɪtɪd/
🔊/ˈɪmɪɡreɪtɪd/
-ing form immigrating
🔊/ˈɪmɪɡreɪtɪŋ/
🔊/ˈɪmɪɡreɪtɪŋ/
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  1. immigrate (to…) (from…) to come and live permanently in a country after leaving your own country(从外地)移居;移民
    • About 6.6 million people immigrated to the United States in the 1970s.20世纪70年代大约有660万人移居美国。
    compare emigrateTopics Social issuesc1
    Word Originearly 17th cent.: from Latin immigrat- ‘immigrated’, from the verb immigrare, from in- ‘into’ + migrare ‘migrate’.