undergo

1. (transitive) To experience; to pass through a phase.
2. (transitive) To suffer or endure; bear with.
3. (obsolete, transitive) To go or move under or beneath.

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˌʌndɚˈɡoʊ/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: undergon

Inherited from Old English: undergān

Cognate with Dutch: ondergaan

Cognate with German: untergehen

Cognate with Swedish: undergå

In summary

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”).

Synonyms

experience

suffer

go through

endure

bear

🐻

feel

pass

hurt

ache

taste

sustain

tolerate

have

incur

meet

occur

pass through

penetrate

put up with

receive

risk

see

👀

subsist

take

transcend

try

undertake

become popular

be subject to

approved

history

accept

🉑

brave

calendar

📆

catch

come in for

derive

drudge

encounter

event

exist

get

Sentences

While turning southwestward on the following day , the hurricane began to undergo rapid deepening .

In plankton feeding veligers , the larva can undergo considerable growth .