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/ˌʌndəˈɡəʊ/ · un·der·go
verb
- To go or move under or beneath something. The river will undergo the bridge during the flood.
- To experience or pass through a particular phase or condition. The company is undergoing a major restructuring this quarter.
- To suffer or endure; to be subjected to something, often unpleasant. She had to undergo surgery after the accident.
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Did you know? The verb 'undergo' was famously used by Shakespeare in *King Lear* (“I have no way to go, I must undergo the storm”), illustrating its early figurative sense of enduring hardship.