demigrate

Verb (1)

demigrate (third-person singular simple present demigrates, present participle demigrating, simple past and past participle demigrated)

1. (obsolete) To emigrate.
   • I demigrate into one of these so well architected minsters1653, W. Heath Robinson, The Works of Mr. Francis Rabelais

Verb (2)

IPA/ˌdiːmaɪˈɡɹeɪt/

demigrate (third-person singular simple present demigrates, present participle demigrating, simple past and past participle demigrated)

1. To cancel or return from migration (of e.g. a computer system).
   • The reason is that it is more cost effective to debug and troubleshoot the new environment than to demigrate and lose all the data transactions completed under the new technology.2002, Charles V. Breakfield, Roxanne E. Burkey, Managing Systems Migrations and Upgrades, page 196