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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When materials undergo these phase changes, important physical properties can change as well, including density and refractive index, which affect how sound and light travel through them.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 22, 2026
The same logic dictates the "forced march" the hopefuls must undergo -- the final exercise required to earn the paratrooper's beret.
From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026
The ship stopped for several days in Split, Croatia, in March, during the height of the Iran war, to undergo maintenance and give sailors time off.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
Standard balloons, made of natural rubber, undergo sulphur vulcanization, with accelerators, activators and other substances added, said the scientists at Imperial.
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026
Annabelle thinks of the mysterious universe, how atoms of light can undergo fusion if they’re squeezed under enough pressure.
From "A Heart in a Body in the World" by Deb Caletti
Konsa's departure to Arsenal is the latest high-profile exit at Villa Park this summer as Emery's squad undergoes drastic change.
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 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
The process begins after a patient undergoes surgery to remove a high-risk melanoma tumor.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
The Catholic church is deeply entrenched in Poland's national identity and the Virgin Mary is considered the country's patron and protector, even as it undergoes one of the fastest rates of secularisation worldwide.
From Barron's ● Jul. 27, 2026
If the conditions change, different types of individuals may now survive or reproduce better and become “naturally selected,” with the result that the population undergoes evolutionary change.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
Jeffries was committed to a federal medical center for a competency-restoration period and underwent subsequent evaluations by prosecution and defense experts.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
The 27-year-old Russian-Australian citizen underwent "military-style" training in Russia and later joined the Ukrainian armed forces, Australian Federal Police Commissioner Krissy Barrett told a news conference.
From Barron's ● Aug. 21, 2026
He underwent a number of procedures and operations before being discharged on 1 February.
From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026
Researchers analyzed medical information from two large data sets that together included 21,462 female participants who underwent clinical testing while they were alive.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 14, 2026
The stolidity of the German woman underwent a sudden change.
From "Murder on the Orient Express" by Agatha Christie
The tour comes after a rare period of rest and relaxation for Usher, who recently revealed to Architectural Digest that he had undergone surgery on his knee earlier this year.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 18, 2026
In July 2025, Derry told the BBC he was living with a cancerous brain tumour and had undergone surgery to remove some of it.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
Under current medical practice, estrogen-only therapy is prescribed only to people who have undergone a hysterectomy because of the risk of endometrial cancer.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 14, 2026
The state has tracked data for 72 workers who have undergone lung transplants and 51 workers who have been referred for lung transplant evaluations.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026
Probably no area in the developed world has undergone a more profound change in just a century or so, at least not in a contrary direction to the normal course of progress.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
The Hiroshima University team set out to determine whether oral health was also associated with how long patients survived after undergoing resection, the surgical removal of all or part of an organ, for PDAC.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 22, 2026
He spent three months on the IL after undergoing surgery to remove loose bodies from his right elbow in late April.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026
Last year, Accenture CEO Julie Sweet told employees that she would be undergoing breast cancer treatment and continuing to work throughout the therapy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
They are now undergoing further tests to establish their age and identity, police added.
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026
But generally during this era, throughout the Western world, the nature of criminal punishment was undergoing profound change.
From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover
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