Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to undergo
Participle: undergone
Gerund: undergoing
Indicative
Present
| I | undergo |
| you | undergo |
| he;she;it | undergoes |
| we | undergo |
| you | undergo |
| they | undergo |
Perfect
| I | have undergone |
| you | have undergone |
| he;she;it | has undergone |
| we | have undergone |
| you | have undergone |
| they | have undergone |
Past
| I | underwent |
| you | underwent |
| he;she;it | underwent |
| we | underwent |
| you | underwent |
| they | underwent |
Pluperfect
| I | had undergone |
| you | had undergone |
| he;she;it | had undergone |
| we | had undergone |
| you | had undergone |
| they | had undergone |
Future
| I | will undergo |
| you | will undergo |
| he;she;it | will undergo |
| we | will undergo |
| you | will undergo |
| they | will undergo |
Future Perfect
| I | will have undergone |
| you | will have undergone |
| he;she;it | will have undergone |
| we | will have undergone |
| you | will have undergone |
| they | will have undergone |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | undergo |
| you | undergo |
| he;she;it | undergo |
| we | undergo |
| you | undergo |
| they | undergo |
Perfect
| I | have undergone |
| you | have undergone |
| he;she;it | have undergone |
| we | have undergone |
| you | have undergone |
| they | have undergone |
Imperfect
| I | underwent |
| you | underwent |
| he;she;it | underwent |
| we | underwent |
| you | underwent |
| they | underwent |
Pluperfect
| I | had undergone |
| you | had undergone |
| he;she;it | had undergone |
| we | had undergone |
| you | had undergone |
| they | had undergone |
Conditional
Present
| I | would undergo |
| you | would undergo |
| he;she;it | would undergo |
| we | would undergo |
| you | would undergo |
| they | would undergo |
Perfect
| I | would have undergone |
| you | would have undergone |
| he;she;it | would have undergone |
| we | would have undergone |
| you | would have undergone |
| they | would have undergone |
Imperative
| you | undergo |
| we | Let's undergo |
| you | undergo |
Verbs similar to 'undergo'
underdo,
underget,
undergore,
undergrow,
underpot,
undertow,
unmerge,
overgo,
sunder,
unberth,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- to suffer or endure
- tolerate
- to allow something unpleasant to exist or occur
- abear, abide, aby, accept, allow, bear, bide, brook, dree, endure, forbear, go along with, live with, pass, pocket, pouch, put up with, stand, stick, stomach, suffer, swallow, take sitting down, tolerate, thole, undergang
- experience
- endure, tolerate, sustain, suffer, bear, abide, submit, know
Antonyms
- experience
- inexperience, immaturity, greenness, rawness
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. O.E.
undergan "undermine," from
under +
gan (see go). Cf. M.Du.
ondergaen, O.H.G.
untarkun, Ger.
untergehen, Dan.
undergaa. Sense of "submit to, endure" is attested from c.1300. Meaning "to pass through" (an alteration, etc.) is attested from 1634.
2. From Middle English undergon, from Old English undergān (“to undergo, undermine, ruin”), equivalent to under- + go. Cognate with Dutch ondergaan (“to undergo, perish, sink”), German untergehen (“to perish, sink, undergo”), Swedish undergå (“to undergo, go through”). See: Dutch '
ondergaan', German, old spelling '
untergehen', Swedish '
undergå'.
Verbs referencing "undergo"
German, old spelling
untergehen, Danish
undergå.
Sample Sentences
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They reside in various boarding-houses near at hand. The owners of the mills are particularly careful to allow no persons to enter upon the possession of these houses, whose characters have not undergone the most searching and thorough inquiry. Any complaint that is made against them, by the boarders, or by any one else, is fully investigated; and if good ground of complaint be shown to exist [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] of it must fall far short of the reality—it wears the mind into a morbid state, which renders it unfit for the rough contact and busy action of the world. It is my fixed opinion that those who have undergone this punishment, MUST pass into society again morally unhealthy and diseased. There are many instances on record, of men who have chosen, or have been condemned, to lives of perfect solitude, but I [...]
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[...] to prison: indeed everything, but the commission of the offence, made directly against that assumption. There are only two ways of accounting for this extraordinary proceeding. One is, that after undergoing so much for this copper measure he conceived he had established a sort of claim and right to it. The other that, by dint of long thinking about, it had become a monomania with him, and had acquired [...]
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[...] mysterious ceremony by the old lady in question had depended on the accuracy of her son 's vision in respect to the abstract brightness and smartness of the Harrisburg mail, she would certainly have undergone its infliction. However, they booked twelve people inside; and the luggage (including such trifles as a large rocking-chair, and a good-sized dining-table ) being at length made fast upon the roof, [...]
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