| VERB | change | emigrate | leave one's country of residence for a new one |
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| Sounds | eh'mahgrey.t | |
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| Rhymes | abate ... welterweight: 559 rhymes with eyt... | |
| Meaning | Leave one's country of residence for a new one. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s; Somebody ----s PP | |
| Example | "Many people had to emigrate during the Nazi period" | |
| Entails | leave, go forth, go away | go away from a place |
| Narrower | expatriate | Move away from one's native country and adopt a new residence abroad |
| Broader | migrate, transmigrate | Move from one country or region to another and settle there |
| Opposite | immigrate | Come into a new country and change residency |
| Spanish | emigrar | |
| Catalan | emigrar | |
| Nouns | 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) | |
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