immigrate
verb [intransitive] (especially North American English)- immigrate (to…) (from…)
to come and live permanently in a country after leaving your own country (从外地)移居;移民 About 6.6 million people immigrated to the United States in the 1970s. 20世纪70年代大约有660万人移居美国。
Word Originearly 17th cent.: from Latin immigrat- ‘immigrated’, from the verb immigrare, from in- ‘into’ + migrare ‘migrate’.