All 3 Uses of
emigrate
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Nicholas Nickleby
- Rats and mice, and such small gear, had long ago been starved, or had emigrated to better quarters: and, in their stead, appeared gloves, bands, scarfs, hair-pins, and many other little devices, almost as ingenious in their way as rats and mice themselves, for the tantalisation of mankind.†
Chpt 19
- It was a mercy he didn't emigrate.†
Chpt 41 *
- Whether the deceased might not have been better off if he had emigrated in his bachelor days, was a question which his relict did not stop to consider; for Kate entered the room, with her workbox, in this stage of her reflections; and a much slighter interruption, or no interruption at all, would have diverted Mrs Nickleby's thoughts into a new channel at any time.†
Chpt 41
Definition:
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(emigrate) leave a country to live in another country