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.
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Before joining the platforms, workers undergo background checks, including police verification.
From Barron's ● Jul. 22, 2026
Yellow jersey wearer Pogacar was awoken after the Dane at 05:00 to undergo doping controls and suggested the effects of Vingegaard's disrupted sleep could have been a factor in his crash.
From BBC ● Jul. 19, 2026
She was declared legally incapacitated in March 2023, according to The Athletic, and continues to undergo rehabilitation.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 13, 2026
The concept of “ultra” processing has nothing to do with the actual amount of processing that foods undergo.
From Slate ● Jul. 12, 2026
Of course, she must undergo an operation, and afterward—well, she would be her “old self” again.
From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote
Surgeons say that aortic dissections are sometimes identified by accident when a patient undergoes a CT scan or X-ray for routine reasons or other conditions.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 13, 2026
The 11th Century embroidery, which depicts the Norman conquest of England in 1066, is being loaned to the UK while its usual home, the Bayeux Museum in Normandy, undergoes a major renovation.
From BBC ● Jul. 1, 2026
But from Monday, activity will stop, as the extraordinary device undergoes upgrades aimed to further increase the precision and intensity of particle collisions.
From Barron's ● Jun. 27, 2026
At this thickness, the metal undergoes a transition from a strained state caused by the underlying material to a more relaxed atomic arrangement.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 6, 2026
The Otter sloop-of-war is hove to and careened in the channel while it undergoes repair; men crawl upon its belly, scraping at barnacles and repairing the work of the worm.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
Etchells underwent excision surgery, a procedure to remove the lesions caused by endometriosis, which she says made her feel "lighter".
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026
Strategy, which Michael Saylor founded in 1989, underwent its latest transformation in recent years from a software company into one of the world’s biggest stockpiles of bitcoin.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 16, 2026
He also underwent Tommy John surgery two months before the Dodgers selected him in the 11th round of the 2021 MLB draft.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 13, 2026
She later underwent treatments including life-extending surgery, radiotherapy and chemotherapy.
From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2026
Siddhartha thought yearningly and bitterly about his son, nursed his love and feeling of tenderness for him, let the pain gnaw at him, underwent all the follies of love.
From "Siddhartha" by Hermann Hesse
Her timing was fortuitous: The men’s Bumps race had just undergone a rebranding to the “open division.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026
Records indicate that the four-bedroom beach house was swiped off the market in June, having undergone a $550,000 price cut the previous month.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 14, 2026
The team reviewed clinical information from more than 9,000 patients who had undergone mitral valve repair or replacement for DMR.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 12, 2026
The district also has undergone leadership change at the top.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 9, 2026
It was the most searching examination Marisa Coulter had ever undergone.
From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman
“We didn’t check a box. We made a mistake,” she said, adding that the nonprofit is undergoing an audit.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2026
The semiconductor sector is undergoing a reset and has a tendency to underperform in the third quarter.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026
Now 25 and still struggling in some respects physically, she has just graduated from Keele University and said her own experience of undergoing treatment gave her a better understanding what patients were going through.
From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026
The trend has empowered more women to speak up, especially after a Kazakh blogger with around a million Instagram followers died after undergoing liposuction in May.
From Barron's ● Jul. 17, 2026
This language reflected the revolution that science was undergoing, but it also made that revolution possible.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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