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Undergo

//ˌʌndɚˈɡoʊ// verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To experience; to pass through a phase. transitive

    "The project is undergoing great changes."

  2. 2
    go through wordnet
  3. 3
    To suffer or endure; bear with. transitive

    "The victim underwent great trauma."

  4. 4
    To go or move under or beneath. obsolete, transitive

Etymology

From Middle English undergon, from Old English undergān (“to undergo, undermine, ruin”), equivalent to under- + go. Cognate with Dutch ondergaan (“to undergo, perish, sink”), German untergehen (“to perish, sink, undergo”), Swedish undergå (“to undergo, go through”).

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