emigrate
verb (used without object)
to leave one country or region to settle in another; migrate.
emigrates
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present tense formof emigrate (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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The two lose contact for 12 years after Nora’s family emigrates to the United States and reconnect after Hae-sung finds her again on Facebook.
From Salon ● Apr. 19, 2024
The top prize for best feature went to drama Past Lives, about childhood sweethearts in South Korea who are separated when one emigrates to the US.
From BBC ● Nov. 28, 2023
“No one emigrates from their country because they want to. One migrates because you have basic needs and there isn’t support in your native country,” she said, starting to cry.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 6, 2023
On that February afternoon, Moshfegh, a self-described workaholic, reported she was already halfway through her next novel, about a woman who emigrates from China to San Francisco in the early 1900s.
From New York Times ● Apr. 16, 2020
At the best, the grain harvests are uncertain, while fish are almost as sure as the season; and so the surplus agricultural population either emigrates or removes to the fishing grounds on the coast.
From Northern Travel Summer and Winter Pictures of Sweden, Denmark and Lapland by Bayard Taylor
