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Another word for migrate

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Verb

  1. To leave one's native land and settle in another

    See also:

    approach

  2. To change habitat seasonally

    See also:

    move

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Another word for migrate

Verb
  1. See also:

    move

    leave

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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Sentence Examples

  • The Russians do not emigrate as isolated individuals; they migrate in whole villages.

  • During and after supper, conversation seemed to continually migrate back to Cynthia.

  • Entire villages migrate after the harvest to the neighbourhood of some plentiful well.

  • The decay that followed caused a number of Sabaeans to migrate to other parts of Arabia.

  • Bats are social, nocturnal and they migrate to a warmer climate, or hibernate.

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