emigrate
verb [intransitive]- emigrate (from…) (to…)
to leave your own country to go and live permanently in another country 移居国外;移民 The family left Czechoslovakia in 1968 and emigrated to America. 这家人于1968年离开捷克斯洛伐克,移居美国。 Many people who emigrated experienced poverty and racism when they arrived. 许多移民者在到达时经历了贫困和种族歧视。 My grandparents emigrated from Vietnam to the US in the 1980s. 我的祖父母在20世纪80年代从越南移民到了美国。
Word Originlate 18th cent.: from Latin emigrat- ‘emigrated’, from the verb emigrare, from e- (variant of ex-) ‘out of’ + migrare ‘migrate’.