migrate

[ US /ˈmaɪˌɡɹeɪt/ ]
[ UK /ma‍ɪɡɹˈe‍ɪt/ ]
VERB
  1. move periodically or seasonally
    The workers migrate to where the crops need harvesting
    birds migrate in the Winter
  2. move from one country or region to another and settle there
    Many Germans migrated to South America in the mid-19th century
    This tribe transmigrated many times over the centuries
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How To Use migrate In A Sentence

  • He is a Berlin gestaltist who emigrated to the United States, became professor of the Psychology of Art at Harvard University and published 13 books on gestalt theory and art.
  • John emigrated to England at the age of eighteen.
  • The other group migrated into South America, where it survives today as wild guanacos and vicunas and domesticated llamas and alpacas.
  • The Pythagorean doctrine that one soul can not only transmigrate from man to man, from man to beast, but also indifferently to plants, serves as the basis for the soul's secular progress.
  • He never contacted his children after he emigrated to Australia
  • Some of the most charismatic cloud forest species such as the resplendent quetzal (Pharomacrus mocinno) and three-wattled bellbird (Procnias tricarunculata) are equally dependent on the seasonal moist forests as they migrate annually to these moist forests at the completion of their breeding season. Costa Rican seasonal moist forests
  • In particular, light measurements are performed at sunset because increased prey and predator interactions occur at twilight, when animals previously hidden in the deep, aphotic (without light) zone migrate vertically up to the surface. Scientific American
  • A large number of those who migrated across the new border to India were resettled in Delhi.
  • Unemployment soared, thousands emigrated and the national debt spiralled out of control.
  • He told of a young woman from Burma who immigrated with her family and, upon entering college, identified with fellow Muslim students and began wearing a hijab (traditional headscarf).
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