undergo
/ˌʌndɚˈɡoʊ/ verb B1- To experience; to pass through a phase. · The project is undergoing great changes.
- To suffer or endure; bear with. · The victim underwent great trauma.· She had to undergo surgery because of her broken leg.
He/she/it undergoes · Past underwent · Past participle undergone · -ing form undergoing
Verb forms
- Base form
- undergo
- He/she/it
- undergoes
- Past
- underwent
- Past participle
- undergone
- -ing form
- undergoing
An irregular verb: learn its past and past participle by heart.
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I really am quite ashamed to have been the cause of your undergoing such severe self-examination; let us drop the subject, and adopt the middle course of delay, which implies neither a rupture nor an engagement.
It was a terrible thing to undergo, but during the year I stood there I had time to think that the greatest loss I had known was the loss of my heart.
“I was at the festival of my marriage, monsieur,” said the young man, his voice slightly tremulous, so great was the contrast between that happy moment and the painful ceremony he was now undergoing; so great was the contrast between the sombre aspect of M.
The waiting was tiresome and wearing, and at last they grew vexed that Oz should treat them in so poor a fashion, after sending them to undergo hardships and slavery.
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