undergo

[Un`der*go·]

Undergo means "endure until something is complete." You might undergo testing to check your hearing or undergo special training if you want to volunteer at a homeless shelter.

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To go or move below or under.

Verb
accept or undergo, often unwillingly; "We took a pay cut"

Verb
of mental or physical states or experiences; "get an idea"; "experience vertigo"; "get nauseous"; "undergo a strange sensation"; "The chemical undergoes a sudden change"; "The fluid undergoes shear"; "receive injuries"; "have a feeling"

Verb
go or live through; "We had many trials to go through"; "he saw action in Viet Nam"


v. t.
To go or move below or under.

v. t.
To be subjected to; to bear up against; to pass through; to endure; to suffer; to sustain; as, to undergo toil and fatigue; to undergo pain, grief, or anxiety; to undergothe operation of amputation; food in the stomach undergoes the process of digestion.

v. t.
To be the bearer of; to possess.

v. t.
To undertake; to engage in; to hazard.

v. t.
To be subject or amenable to; to underlie.


Undergo

Un`der*go" , v. t. [imp. Underwent ; p. p. Undergone (?; 115); p. pr. & vb. n. Undergoing.] [AS. underg'ben. See Under, and Go.] 1. To go or move below or under. [Obs.] 2. To be subjected to; to bear up against; to pass through; to endure; to suffer; to sustain; as, to undergo toil and fatigue; to undergo pain, grief, or anxiety; to undergothe operation of amputation; food in the stomach undergoes the process of digestion.
Certain to undergo like doom.
3. To be the bearer of; to possess. [Obs.]
Their virtues else, be they as pure as grace, As infinite as man may undergo.
4. To undertake; to engage in; to hazard. [Obs.]
I have moved already Some certain of the noblest-minded Romans To undergo with me an enterprise.
5. To be subject or amenable to; to underlie. [Obs.]
Claudio undergoes my challenge.

To go or move below or under.

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Usage Examples

A lot of people fear death because they think that so overwhelming an experience has to be painful, but I've seen quite a few deaths, and, with one exception, I've never known anyone to undergo anything like agony. That's amazing when you think about it. I mean, how complicated the mechanism is that's being taken apart.

People can undergo a sudden change of thinking and loyalties under threat of death or intense social pressure and isolation from friends and family.

You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.

Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.

The man who has the will to undergo all labor may win to any good.

If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do well for my family, although I must abandon my life to its success, and undergo many sad perplexities and perhaps never see again my own beloved America.

Every genuine boy is a rebel and an anarch. If he were allowed to develop according to his own instincts, his own inclinations, society would undergo such a radical transformation as to make the adult revolutionary cower and cringe.

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