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transmigrate

 
Dictionary: trans·mi·grate   (trăns-mī'grāt', trănz-) pronunciation
intr.v., -grat·ed, -grat·ing, -grates.
  1. To migrate.
  2. To pass into another body after death. Used of the soul.

[Latin trānsmigrāre, trānsmigrāt- : trāns-, trans- + migrāre, to migrate; see migrate.]

transmigration trans'mi·gra'tion n.
transmigrator trans·mi'gra'tor n.
transmigratory trans·mi'gra·to'ry (-mī'grə-tôr'ē, -tōr'ē) adj.

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verb

  1. To leave one's native land and settle in another: emigrate, immigrate, migrate. See approach/retreat.
  2. To change habitat seasonally: migrate. See move/halt.

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(trăns'mī-grā'shən, trănz'-)
n.

Movement from one site to another, which may entail the crossing of some usually limiting membrane or barrier, as in diapedesis.

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1. diapedesis.
2. change of place from one side of the body to the other.

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The verb has 2 meanings:

Meaning #1: be born anew in another body after death
  Synonym: reincarnate

Meaning #2: move from one country or region to another and settle there
  Synonym: migrate


 
 
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