Transmigrate

verb

verb ·Uncommon ·Advanced level

Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To migrate to another country. intransitive
  2. 2
    move from one country or region to another and settle there wordnet
  3. 3
    To pass into another body after death. intransitive
  4. 4
    be born anew in another body after death wordnet

Synonyms

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migratereincarnatebodycorporealizecorporifyembody

Example

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"My father believed that when he would die, he would be reborn in a different body in a different world—a different "planet." I was not sure if he was talking of Buddhist "rebirth" or Hindu "reincarnation." Nevertheless, he said that the "mind" as he put it would transmigrate into a new body. Before he converted to a Baptist Protestant, as a Roman Catholic, he did explore the paranormal genre, such as books by Tuesday Lobsang Rampa and Erich von Däniken."

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin trānsmigrō. By surface analysis, trans- + migrate.

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