Definition of migrate:

• To pass periodically from one region or climate to another for feeding or breeding; -- said of certain birds, fishes, and quadrupeds.
• To remove from one country to another, with a view to residence in it.
• 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.
• To wander, to pass from one part to another in an organ or in the body, said of certain diseases or symptoms.
• To remove for residence from one country to another.
• To remove to another place or country.
• To remove from one country to another.
• 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"
• To remove from one country to settle or reside in another.
• Migration.

Usage examples for migrate

1. That most of our smaller birds migrate by night is by this time too well established to need corroboration; but if the student wishes to assure himself of the fact at first hand, he may easily do it by one or two seasons' observations in our Common,- or, I suppose, in any like inclosure.  Birds in the Bush by Bradford Torrey

2. 30, allowed the grant of a certificate of settlement, under which safeguard the holder could migrate to a district where his labour was required, the new parish being assured he would not become chargeable to it, and therefore not troubling to remove him till there was actual need: but the statute acted as an effectual check on migration and prevented the labourer carrying his work where it was wanted.  A Short History of English Agriculture by W. H. R. Curtler

3. These eggs gradually migrate into the gullet, where they hatch and burrow through the tissues, and in the early spring will be found in the region of the back in the form of small lumps under the skin.  The Veterinarian by Chas. J. Korinek