undergo
Usage
What is another way to say undergo?
Undergo usually refers to the bearing or enduring of something hard, difficult, disagreeable, or dangerous: to undergo severe hardships, an operation. Experience implies being affected by what one meets with: to experience a change of heart, bitter disappointment.
Example Sentences
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Undergo ligament replacement, a proven procedure commonly known as Tommy John surgery, that probably would keep him out of action for 15 months or more; or try something different.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 28, 2016
Undergo was the job of the family, as patient as a lamb: he encouraged the blessed martyrs in times of yore, and is still in existence, though his patience has somewhat diminished.
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 532, February 4, 1832 by Various
Undergo, un-dėr-gō′, v.t. to go under or be subjected to: to endure or suffer: to pass through: to sustain without sinking: to partake of.—adj.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various
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