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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These patients often undergo radiotherapy near the mouth, which can damage salivary glands and reduce saliva production.
From Science Daily • Apr. 5, 2026
And beyond his outsize presence on the course, Woods has played a leading role reshaping the PGA Tour while it prepares to undergo significant change.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 1, 2026
Then, in February 2019, Buckingham suffered a heart attack and had to undergo triple bypass surgery.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 1, 2026
He said he would like his body to undergo terramation, when his time finally comes.
From BBC • Mar. 31, 2026
“No, of course it isn’t necessary. But some kinds of baseness are nobly undergone. I’d like to undergo something nobly. Don’t you see?”
From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
