Definition of "emigrate"

emigrate

/ˈɛmɪɡɹeɪt/

verb
third-person singular simple present emigrates, present participle emigrating, simple past and past participle emigrated
1. (intransitive) To leave the country in which one lives, especially one's native country, in order to reside elsewhere.
  Quotations
  Forced to emigrate in a body to America.
  1856 February, [Thomas Babington] Macaulay, “Oliver Goldsmith ”, in T[homas] F[lower] E[llis], editor, The Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches of Lord Macaulay, new edition, London: Longman, Green, Reader, & Dyer, published 1871
  They [the Huns] were emigrating from Tartary into Europe in the time of the Goths.
  1872, John Henry Newman, Historical Sketches