UNDERGO (undergone, underwent)

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Irregular inflected forms: undergone    , underwent   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does undergo mean? 

• UNDERGO (verb)
  The verb UNDERGO has 1 sense:

1. pass through

  Familiarity information: UNDERGO used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNDERGO (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they undergo    ... he / she / it undergoes   
Past simple: underwent   
Past participle: undergone   
-ing form: undergoing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Pass through

Classified under:

Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling

Context example:

undergo a strange sensation

Hypernyms (to "undergo" is one way to...):

change (undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "undergo"):

respire (undergo the biomedical and metabolic processes of respiration by taking up oxygen and producing carbon monoxide)

labor; labour (undergo the efforts of childbirth)

submit; take (accept or undergo, often unwillingly)

experience; get; have; receive (go through (mental or physical states or experiences))

experience; go through; see (undergo or live through a difficult experience)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

 Context examples 

Wolf Larsen underwent another bad attack of headache which lasted two days.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

The branch of chemistry that focuses on the changes that chemicals undergo when exposed to light.

(Photochemistry, NCI Thesaurus)

You might have to undergo a lot of medical tests to find the cause of the pain.

(Pelvic Pain, NIH: National Institute of Child Health and Human Development)

Mitozolomide undergoes ring opening upon the nucleophilic attack at C-4 by an activated molecule of water within the major groove of DNA.

(Mitozolomide, NCI Thesaurus)

The devices sense when a vehicle is undergoing testing and reduce emissions to comply with government standards.

(Diesel Pollutes More Than Lab Tests Detect, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

They continued OIT until week 36 of the study, at which point they underwent an oral food challenge.

(Omalizumab improves efficacy of oral immunotherapy for multiple food allergies, National Institutes of Health)

These cancer stem cells undergo anchorage-independent growth, also known as growth in suspension, without any tissue attachment.

(‘Energetic Cancer Cells’ May Be Origin of Cancer Spread, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Most women diagnosed with early stages of common forms of breast cancer may be able to avoid having to undergo chemotherapy, according to a new study.

(Study: Many Breast Cancer Patients Can Skip Chemo, VOA)

A primitive, undifferentiated blood cell which can undergo division and will give rise to a cell in the basophil lineage.

(Bone Marrow Stem Cell Committed to the Basophil Lineage, NCI Thesaurus)

Five year disease-free survival rates between 80% and 90% have been reported in patients who underwent extensive surgical removal of the tumor.

(Oral Cavity Verrucous Carcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)