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. Chris Spurgeon:

   Birds that migrate do occasionally do crazy things: go in the wrong direction, go too far, migrate at the wrong time of year, stuff like that.

2. Haren Das:

   The hilsa fish by nature keeps away from rough waters, so when cyclones occur, groups of these fish migrate to safer areas, including the Brahmaputra.

3. Wael Sawan:

   Right now you can get all the [ publicly-listed ] companies like ourselves out of the production of oil and gas, it will not have a single barrel of impact on the overall demand level, because all of that production will in essence migrate to many other countries — national oil companies — who will satisfy that demand.

4. Christian Yates:

   Traditionally people thought that cells didn't make it to the front of embryos to pigment the belly because they just weren't migrating fast enough, what we've been able to show through our studies is that actually, if anything, cells in piebald animals migrate faster but they're just not proliferating enough. They're not making enough daughter cells to colonize - or cover - the whole region of the skin that needs to be covered by the time the pigmentation pattern is set down.

5. Christophe Nussbaum:

   What is new here is that, if one day we want to stock CO2 in Switzerland, which is a densely populated region, we need to make sure that the CO2 won't migrate into the surface and contaminate, for instance, drinking water sources. This is really one of the major stakes here.