What is the difference between the word “immigrate” and “emigrate?”?
To add to the three informative posts above, I could add definitions of the prefixes ‘im-‘ in immigrate and ‘e- in emigrate’: ‘im-‘ is a variant form of ‘in-‘ meaning “in”. Hence ‘immigrate’ would be analysed “to move in”, and ‘e-‘ is a variant form of ‘ex-‘ meaning “out”. Hence ’emigrate’ would be analysed “to move out”. These can help you memorise the different meanings via the sounds because people retain better what is understood in simple forms that they readily recognise.