Another word for migrate
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Verb
To leave one's native land and settle in another
- To migrate.
- To pass into another body after death. Used of the soul.
- To enter and settle in a country or region to which one is not native.
- To send or introduce as immigrants:
- To leave one country or region to settle in another.
See also:To change habitat seasonally
- To migrate.
- To pass into another body after death. Used of the soul.
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Another word for migrate
Verb
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- To make a slow or arduous journey.
- To journey on foot, especially to hike through mountainous areas.
- To travel by ox wagon.
- To send into exile:
- To remove (oneself) from residence in one's native land.
- To give up residence in one's homeland.
- To migrate.
- To pass into another body after death. Used of the soul.
- To convey or cause to pass from one place, person, or thing to another.
- To make over the possession or legal title of (property, for example); convey.
- To convey (a design, for example) from one surface to another, as by impression.
- To move to or establish in a new place:
- To become established in a new residence or place of business:
- (intransitive) to settle in a different place
- to force someone to settle in a different place
- To enter and settle in a country or region to which one is not native.
- To send or introduce as immigrants:
- To leave one country or region to settle in another.
- To change in position from one point to another:
- To follow a specified course:
- To change posture or position; stir:
Synonym Study
- Emigrate and immigrate are used only of people, emigrate specifically denoting the leaving of a country to settle in another, and immigrate, the coming into the new country to settle
- Migrate denotes a moving from one region or country to another and may imply, of people, intention to settle in a new land, or, of animals, a periodic movement influenced by climate, food supply, etc.
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