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
Baffert said the filly appeared OK but would undergo diagnostic tests to be sure.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 4, 2026
From July 2027, they must also undergo a fitness assessment to determine whether they would be eligible for service should war break out.
From BBC • Apr. 4, 2026
And I would give almost anything not to have to worry about my next set of scans or blood tests or to undergo another marrow biopsy.
From Slate • Mar. 29, 2026
Kamen could not fathom how Lawrence expected to be immune from courtroom questioning; he supposed, undoubtedly correctly, that Ernest was “not prepared to undergo the trauma of an adversary confrontation.”
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
