When you undertake a task or challenge, you attempt to accomplish it. If you want to undertake a verbal challenge right now, try saying “sushi chef” ten times quickly without messing up.
To take upon one's self; to engage in; to enter upon; to take in hand; to begin to perform; to set about; to attempt.
Verb
enter into a contractual arrangement
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promise to do or accomplish; "guarantee to free the prisoners"
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enter upon an activity or enterprise
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accept as a charge
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accept as a challenge; "I''ll tackle this difficult task"
v. t.
To take upon one's self; to engage in; to enter upon;
to take in hand; to begin to perform; to set about; to attempt.
v. t.
Specifically, to take upon one's self solemnly or
expressly; to lay one's self under obligation, or to enter into
stipulations, to perform or to execute; to covenant; to contract.
v. t.
Hence, to guarantee; to promise; to affirm.
v. t.
To assume, as a character.
v. t.
To engage with; to attack.
v. t.
To have knowledge of; to hear.
v. t.
To take or have the charge of.
v. i.
To take upon one's self, or assume, any business,
duty, or province.
v. i.
To venture; to hazard.
v. i.
To give a promise or guarantee; to be surety.
Undertake
To second, or oppose, or undertake The perilous attempt.2.
I 'll undertake to land them on our coast.3.
And he was not right fat, I undertake.
And those two counties I will undertake Your grace shall well and quietly enjoiy.
I dare undertake they will not lose their labor.4.
It is not fit your lordship should undertake every companion that you give offense to.6.
Keep well those that ye undertake.
Undertake
O Lord, I am oppressed; undertake for me.2.
It is the cowish terror of his spirit That dare not undertake.3.
But on mine honor dare I undertake For good lord Titus' innocence in all.
To take upon one's self; to engage in; to enter upon; to take in hand; to begin to perform; to set about; to attempt.
To take upon one's self, or assume, any business, duty, or province.
Usage Examples
Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.
There can be no great courage where there is no confidence or assurance, and half the battle is in the conviction that we can do what we undertake.
Never undertake anything for which you wouldn't have the courage to ask the blessings of heaven.
No one should fear to undertake any task in the name of our Saviour, if it is just and if the intention is purely for His holy service.
Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself.
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Other Usage ExamplesI won't undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace.
I am a feminist, and what that means to me is much the same as the meaning of the fact that I am Black: it means that I must undertake to love myself and to respect myself as though my very life depends upon self-love and self-respect.
I undertake that, in the exercise of my functions of that office I will have regard to any guidance with respect to ethical standards issued by the secretary of state under Section 66 of the Greater London Authority Act 1999.
I'm not sure I have the physical strength to undertake a novel.
I could undertake to be an efficient pupil if it were possible to find an efficient teacher.
However much we may sympathize with a small nation confronted by a big and powerful neighbours, we cannot in all circumstances undertake to involve the whole British Empire in a war simply on her account.
The path of least resistance and least trouble is a mental rut already made. It requires troublesome work to undertake the alternation of old beliefs.
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