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say it: EM-uh-grayt
emigrate is a verb meaning "leave one's country of residence for a new one". It is pronounced /ˈɛməˌɡɹeɪt/ — EM-uh-grayt. It carries one recorded sense.
leave one's country of residence for a new one
“Many people had to emigrate during the Nazi period”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for emigrate come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.