emigrate
(verb) leave one’s country of residence for a new one; “Many people had to emigrate during the Nazi period”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
emigrate (third-person singular simple present emigrates, present participle emigrating, simple past and past participle emigrated)
(intransitive) To leave the country in which one lives, especially one's native country, in order to reside elsewhere.
• immigrate
• Meritage, graemite
Source: Wiktionary
Em"i*grate, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Emigrated; p. pr. & vb. n. Emigrating.] Etym: [L. emigratus, p. p. of emigrare to remove, emigrate; e out + migrare to migrate. See Migrate.]
Definition: To remove from one country or State to another, for the purpose of residence; to migrate from home. Forced to emigrate in a body to America. Macaulay. They [the Huns] were emigrating from Tartary into Europe in the time of the Goths. J. H. Newman.
Em"i*grate, a.
Definition: Migratory; roving. [Obs.]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
1 June 2025
(verb) come back to the originator of an action with an undesired effect; “Your comments may backfire and cause you a lot of trouble”; “the political movie backlashed on the Democrats”
According to Guinness World Records, the most massive cup of coffee contained 22,739.14 liters and was created by AlcaldĂa Municipal de Chinchiná (Colombia) at Parque de BolĂvar, Chinchiná, Caldas, Colombia, on 15 June 2019. Fifty people worked for more than a month to build this giant cup. The drink prepared was Arabic coffee.
