Emigrate \Em"i*grate\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Emigrated; p. pr. & vb. n. Emigrating.] [L. emigratus, p. p. of emigrare to remove, emigrate; e out + migrare to migrate. See Migrate.] To remove from one country or State to another, for the purpose of residence; to migrate from home. Forced to emigrate in a body to America. --Macaulay. They [the Huns] were emigrating from Tartary into Europe in the time of the Goths. --J. H. Newman.