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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But she wasn’t ready to undergo a coronal brow lift, an invasive procedure that involves making a sizable incision along the scalp and lifting all the skin on the forehead.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
If a patient gets a positive test, they are instructed to undergo a cancer work-up, whether that’s imaging or biopsies.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 23, 2026
He stayed in the game but indicated afterward he would undergo X-rays the next day.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026
The Home Office website cites World Health Organisation figures showing three million girls undergo some form, external of the procedure every year in Africa alone.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
“Don't let me undergo the indignity of dying in the stocks in these women's clothes,” he said to him.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The memorial undergoes regular year-round maintenance and investment, with officials expecting water to begin flowing again "in the next few weeks".
From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2026
As the sail races away from the laser source, the light reaching it undergoes an increasingly strong Doppler shift.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 2, 2026
While Perez undergoes treatment, the family is trying to figure out what could have triggered the mental health crisis.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026
For about a year, the patient undergoes treatment, which is a combination of the therapeutic vaccine, intismeran autogene, and Keytruda, the world’s top-selling cancer drug.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 20, 2026
Those who would take seriously the boy’s success—and his failure—would be forced to realize how great is the change any academic undergoes, how far one must move from one’s past.
From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez
Garrett underwent knee surgery after the season-opening loss to San Francisco and was placed on injured reserve, meaning he will miss four games.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026
An artist’s ‘happiest place’ underwent a $10 million renovation by its new owners, who expanded the home and added a new poolhouse.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026
During that period, plague lineages underwent a major expansion and split into three important branches.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2026
Pam Brown from Durham was an NHS patient who underwent a mastectomy in 2022 at Spire Hospital in Washington, where one of the outsourced private clinics was based.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
They underwent the same tests and indignities that the original Mercury 7 went through, and more.
From "Women in Space" by Karen Bush Gibson
For example, some women who had undergone unnecessary mastectomies could be offered breast reconstruction surgery as they previously should have been, Russell said.
From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026
Moderna has been testing the personalized cancer vaccine in combination with Merck’s immunotherapy drug Keytruda in patients with later-stage melanoma who have undergone surgery.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 21, 2026
The president’s son had undergone treatment to better define his jawline for the occasion.
From Salon ● Sep. 14, 2026
She has undergone similar training several times -- and said the lessons helped her confidence -- but noted she was "so envious of young people who can do all this so easily".
From Barron's ● Sep. 14, 2026
It was the most searching examination Marisa Coulter had ever undergone.
From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman
The proposal, which exempts tribal Head Starts furthering tribal languages, is currently undergoing public comment through Oct.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026
He was sidelined for nearly five months, undergoing specialist cardiac monitoring, before returning to play.
From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026
Irregular has played a role in a number of incidents in which models undergoing evaluation escaped testing environments and breached other companies’ systems.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
Researchers have found that the human brain begins undergoing broad changes in the way its genome is regulated starting in midlife.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 15, 2026
Either it was dead, or it was undergoing the change that he’d read about in a library book but could hardly believe was true—the change from a crawling thing to a flying thing.
From "The City of Ember" by Jeanne DuPrau
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