emigrate
verb [intransitive]- emigrate (from…) (to…)
to leave your own country to go and live permanently in another country 移居國外;移民 The family left Czechoslovakia in 1968 and emigrated to America. 這家人於1968年離開捷克斯洛伐克,移居美國。 Many people who emigrated experienced poverty and racism when they arrived. 許多移民者在到達時經歷了貧困和種族歧視。 My grandparents emigrated from Vietnam to the US in the 1980s. 我的祖父母在20世紀80年代從越南移民到了美國。
Word Originlate 18th cent.: from Latin emigrat- ‘emigrated’, from the verb emigrare, from e- (variant of ex-) ‘out of’ + migrare ‘migrate’.