Emigrate

 WORD OF THE DAY

emigrate / verb / EM-uh-grayt

Definition
: to leave one's place of residence or country to live elsewhere

Examples
"Originally from Jamaica, Martin emigrated to the UK in 2002 and enrolled in an IT course at a college in East London."
 — The Caribbean Today, July 2021

But this representation did not prevent the ravages of the Great Famine of 1845-52, during which a million Irish people died of starvation or disease and another million were forced to emigrate.
— Michael F. Bishop, WSJ, 6 Aug. 2021

Wilfredo León, known as the Cristiano Ronaldo of volleyball, decided to leave his native Cuba in 2013 and emigrate to Poland.
— Georgi Kantchev, WSJ, 2 Aug. 2021

Did You Know?
Migrate, emigrate, and immigrate are all about being on the move.
All those terms come from the Latin word migrare, which means "to move from one place to another."
Emigrate and immigrate sound alike, and it is true that both involve leaving one location and entering another.
The subtle difference between them lies in point of view: emigrate stresses leaving the original place, while immigrate focuses on entering the new one.
You won't have trouble keeping them straight if you remember that the prefix e- means "away," as in eject, and the prefix im- or in- means "into," as in inject.