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emigrates

emigrates is the third-person singular simple present indicative of emigrate.

Meaning of emigrate

Verb

emigrate (third-person singular simple present emigrates, present participle emigrating, simple past and past participle emigrated)

  1. (intransitive) To leave the country in which one lives, especially one's native country, in order to reside elsewhere.
    • Forced to emigrate in a body to America.1856 February, [Thomas Babington] Macaulay, “Oliver Goldsmith”, in T[homas] F[lower] E[llis], editor, The Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches of Lord Macaulay, new edition, London: Longman, Green...

Questions about emigrates

What is emigrates the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Emigrates is the third-person singular simple present indicative of emigrate.

Words near emigrates in the dictionary

  1. Emighs
  2. emigrant
  3. emigrants
  4. emigrate
  5. emigrated
  6. emigrates
  7. emigrating
  8. emigration
  9. emigrational
  10. emigrationist
  11. emigrationists

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Adapted from Wiktionary: emigrates (page history and authors); emigrate (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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