Emigrating

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Emigrate \Em"i*grate\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Emigrated}; p. pr. &
     vb. n. {Emigrating}.] [L. emigratus, p. p. of emigrare to
     remove, emigrate; e out + migrare to migrate. See {Migrate}.]
     To remove from one country or State to another, for the
     purpose of residence; to migrate from home.
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           Forced to emigrate in a body to America. --Macaulay.
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           They [the Huns] were emigrating from Tartary into
           Europe in the time of the Goths.         --J. H.
                                                    Newman.
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