Synonyms for migrate
ˈmaɪ greɪtmi·grate

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1. migrate

   To migrate is to change one's dwelling-place, usually with the idea of repeated change, or of periodical return; it applies to wandering tribes of men, and to many birds and animals. Emigrate and immigrate carry the idea of a permanent change of residence to some other country or some distant region; the two words are used distinctively of human beings, and apply to the same person and the same act, according to the side from which the action is viewed.

   Synonyms:
   emigrate, immigrate

   Preposition:
   A person emigrates from the land he leaves, and immigrates to the land where he takes up his abode.

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1. migrate, transmigrateverb

   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"

   Synonyms:
   transmigrate, reincarnate

2. migrateverb

   move periodically or seasonally

   "birds migrate in the Winter"; "The workers migrate to where the crops need harvesting"

   Synonyms:
   transmigrate

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1. migrateverb

   Synonyms:
   change residence (from one country to another)

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1. List of paraphrases for "migrate":

   migrated, migrating, emigrate, migrates, migration, immigrate, move

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1. Karen Hiatt:

   I think what we're going to see through the end of the year is a refocus on oil and commodities, the market is still continuing to want to migrate toward more defensive, more visible earnings-type companies or sectors.

2. Bernie Sanders saying climate change:

   When you have drought, when people can't grow their crops, they're going to migrate into cities, and when people migrate into cities and they don't have jobs, there's going to be a lot more instability, a lot more unemployment, and people will be subject to the types of propaganda that al-Qaeda and ISIS are using right now.

3. Joao Paulo Krajewski:

   This is because Dindim stays in Ilha Grande (where Proveta Beach is located) at the same time all other Magellanic penguins are breeding in Patagonia and other islands down South, when these penguins finish breeding and moulting, they migrate and spend months feeding in the sea.

4. William Eskridge:

   There is a good shot that this (Supreme Court) ruling will migrate over into the constitutional sphere. So that (means) heightened scrutiny for any discrimination against transgender persons.

5. Susan Elbin:

   When there is more than a thousand or if the birds keep getting lower and lower and you can hear them calling when they migrate or if we find a dead bird.