out-migrate

out-migrate
/owt"muy'grayt/, v.i., out-migrated, out-migrating.
to leave a region, community, etc., to move or settle into a different part of one's country or home territory: People are no longer out-migrating from the South in such large numbers.
[1950-55]

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