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What is the verb for immigrant?

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migrate
  1. (intransitive) To relocate periodically from one region to another, usually according to the seasons.
  2. (intransitive) To change one's geographic pattern of habitation.
  3. (intransitive) To change habitations across a border; to move from one country or political region to another.
  4. (intransitive) To move slowly towards, usually in groups.
  5. (transitive, computing): To move computer code or files from one computer or network to another.
  6. (transitive, marketing) To induce customers to shift purchases from one set of a company's related products to another.
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  8. Examples:
    1. “Most of the immigrants came to work so that they could send money back to their family or save enough to migrate their family to the country.”
      “In recent years genetic data has suggested that some male great white sharks migrate between South Africa and Australia.”
      “Males are found in the northern end of the range and migrate south for breeding.”
immigrate
  1. (intransitive) To move into a country from another one to stay permanently.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Thousands of Alsatians chose to immigrate to the United States at this time rather than live under German rule.”
      “If they choose to immigrate they can have a fruitful career as a consultant.”
      “Although relatively few Bolivians immigrate to the United States, those who do are often clerical and administrative workers.”
immigrates
  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of immigrate
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Once a new doctor is trained in Ontario or immigrates from abroad, he or she has an important life decision to make.”
      “A brother who immigrates to Belgium can be naturalized there after three years of residence.”
      “When my heroine immigrates to the U. S., she hopes to fulfill that ambition in New York.”
migrates
  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of migrate
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  3. Examples:
    1. “This function controls tiered storage, which migrates data to different storage targets depending on characteristics.”
      “Too high a concentration is undesirable because unused methanol migrates through the electrolyte to the cathode.”
      “As water migrates, it replenishes soil water around the seed during germination and emergence.”
migrateth
  1. (archaic) third-person singular simple present indicative form of migrate
immigrated
  1. simple past tense and past participle of immigrate
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  3. Examples:
    1. “But meanwhile, a Chinese business class had immigrated to Johannesburg, setting up shop at the lower end of Commissioner Street.”
      “There also are a significant number of Algerians who have immigrated to France to find jobs.”
      “Around 1900, many Puerto Ricans immigrated to Hawaii to work on the plantations.”
migrated
  1. simple past tense and past participle of migrate
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  3. Examples:
    1. “As warmth gradually returns to the northern temperate latitudes, so do the birds that migrated south last autumn.”
      “Before the destruction of Khazaria, some Khazars joined the Magyars and migrated to Hungary.”
      “The westerly dipping reflections show that the dune has migrated from east to west and is accreting on its western side.”
immigrating
  1. present participle of immigrate
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Around 3250 BC, what would later become the Sumerian culture started immigrating to Ubaid territory as well.”
      “She graduated from a normal school in Mexico, but she taught only a year before immigrating to Texas.”
      “In the United States there was also at first no restriction on immigration, at least until non-white persons began immigrating in large numbers.”
migrating
  1. present participle of migrate
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Veerappan, after being used to living in the jungle, couldn't recondition himself to the idea of migrating to concretized Chennai.”
      “Beneath the Cape's rugged cliff faces, washed by blue, mauve and aquamarine seas, migrating humpback whales can be heard breathing at sunrise.”
      “Trouble began in the spring of 1816 when Judge Cooper built a weir, a fish trap, across the St. Jones River to catch migrating shad and herring.”
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