migrate

migrate is a 7-letter English word with 4 senses as intransitive verb and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To remove from one country or region to another, with a view to residence; to change one's place of residence; to remove; as, the Moors who migrated from Africa into Spain; to migrate to the West. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

7 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 12 · 4 senses

Definitions

1. intransitive verb. To remove from one country or region to another, with a view to residence; to change one's place of residence; to remove; as, the Moors who migrated from Africa into Spain; to migrate to the West.
2. intransitive verb. To pass periodically from one region or climate to another for feeding or breeding; -- said of certain birds, fishes, and quadrupeds.
3. verb. 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

4. verb. move periodically or seasonally

   "birds migrate in the Winter"

   "The workers migrate to where the crops need harvesting"

Synonyms

transmigrate

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in migrate:

ragtime

Common word forms

migrated, migrates, migrating

Words from these letters

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