Meaning of "undergo" in the English dictionary

ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD UNDERGO

Old English: earlier meanings were more closely linked with the senses of under and go.

Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.

PRONUNCIATION OF UNDERGO

undergo  [ˌʌndəˈɡəʊ]

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF UNDERGO

Undergo is a verb.

The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb undergo in English.

WHAT DOES UNDERGO MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Operation Undergo

Operation Undergo was the 3rd Canadian Infantry Division's operation to take the fortified French port of Calais in September 1944. A subsidiary operation was executed to silence and capture the heavy batteries at Cap Gris Nez, which threatened the sea approaches to Boulogne. The operation was part of the Allied effort to capture the Channel ports, following the breakout from Normandy. The assault on Calais followed the formula used at Boulogne: seal off the town, soften up the defenders with artillery, aerial and naval bombardments and infantry assaults supported by armour, including flame-throwing tanks, and coordinated artillery rolling barrages. In the event, although the city had been declared a fortress, when pressed, its second-rate garrison needed little persuasion to surrender. This reluctance to fight to the end was repeated at Cap Gris Nez. The 7th and 8th Canadian Infantry Brigades started the main attack from the south west of Calais and cleared the outer defences on the city's southern and western sides. The 8th Brigade were then transferred to the eastern side and the inner defensive lines were attacked from both sides.

Definition of undergo in the English dictionary

The definition of undergo in the dictionary is to experience, endure, or sustain.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO UNDERGO

PRESENT

Present

I undergo

you undergo

he/she/it undergoes

we undergo

you undergo

they undergo

Present continuous

I am undergoing

you are undergoing

he/she/it is undergoing

we are undergoing

you are undergoing

they are undergoing

Present perfect

I have undergone

you have undergone

he/she/it has undergone

we have undergone

you have undergone

they have undergone

Present perfect continuous

I have been undergoing

you have been undergoing

he/she/it has been undergoing

we have been undergoing

you have been undergoing

they have been undergoing

Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past

I underwent

you underwent

he/she/it underwent

we underwent

you underwent

they underwent

Past continuous

I was undergoing

you were undergoing

he/she/it was undergoing

we were undergoing

you were undergoing

they were undergoing

Past perfect

I had undergone

you had undergone

he/she/it had undergone

we had undergone

you had undergone

they had undergone

Past perfect continuous

I had been undergoing

you had been undergoing

he/she/it had been undergoing

we had been undergoing

you had been undergoing

they had been undergoing

Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future

I will undergo

you will undergo

he/she/it will undergo

we will undergo

you will undergo

they will undergo

Future continuous

I will be undergoing

you will be undergoing

he/she/it will be undergoing

we will be undergoing

you will be undergoing

they will be undergoing

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

Future perfect continuous

I will have been undergoing

you will have been undergoing

he/she/it will have been undergoing

we will have been undergoing

you will have been undergoing

they will have been undergoing

The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional

I would undergo

you would undergo

he/she/it would undergo

we would undergo

you would undergo

they would undergo

Conditional continuous

I would be undergoing

you would be undergoing

he/she/it would be undergoing

we would be undergoing

you would be undergoing

they would be undergoing

Conditional perfect

I would have undergo

you would have undergo

he/she/it would have undergo

we would have undergo

you would have undergo

they would have undergo

Conditional perfect continuous

I would have been undergoing

you would have been undergoing

he/she/it would have been undergoing

we would have been undergoing

you would have been undergoing

they would have been undergoing

Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative

you undergo
we let´s undergo
you undergo

The imperative is used to form commands or requests.

NONFINITE VERB FORMS

Infinitive

to undergo

Past participle

undergone

Present Participle

undergoing

Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

SYNONYMS OF «UNDERGO»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «undergo» and belong to the same grammatical category.

synonyms of undergo

bear · endure · experience · go through · stand · suffer · sustain · weather · withstand

TRANSLATION OF UNDERGO

Find out the translation of undergo to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of undergo from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «undergo» in English.

• Translator English - Chinese: 经历
• Translator English - Spanish: padecer
• English: undergo
• Translator English - Hindi: गुज़रना
• Translator English - Arabic: يَتَحَمَّلُ
• Translator English - Russian: испытывать
• Translator English - Portuguese: submeter-se
• Translator English - Bengali: ভুগা
• Translator English - French: subir
• Translator English - Malay: Menjalani
• Translator English - German: durchmachen
• Translator English - Japanese: 経験する
• Translator English - Korean: 경험하다
• Translator English - Javanese: Ngalami
• Translator English - Vietnamese: trải qua
• Translator English - Tamil: மேற்கொள்ளவும்
• Translator English - Marathi: सोसणे
• Translator English - Turkish: uğramak
• Translator English - Italian: sottoporsi
• Translator English - Polish: przejść
• Translator English - Ukrainian: зазнавати
• Translator English - Romanian: a urma
• Translator English - Greek: υποβάλλομαι σε
• Translator English - Afrikaans: ondergaan
• Translator English - Swedish: genomgå
• Translator English - Norwegian: gjennomgå

10 QUOTES WITH «UNDERGO»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word undergo.

1

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Global equations undergo changes, this is their nature.

2

Viswanathan Anand

I don't know how many calories an average chess player burns per game, but it often exceeds that of a player in ball games. It is not only the chess as such: You need to be fit and undergo complicated preparation.

3

Walter Bagehot

The being without an opinion is so painful to human nature that most people will leap to a hasty opinion rather than undergo it.

4

Emily Greene Balch

We speculate as to what is in store for us. But we not only undergo events, we in part cause them or at least influence their course. We have not only to study them but to act.

5

Zygmunt Bauman

Relationships, like cars, should undergo regular services to make sure they are still roadworthy.

6

Joseph Campbell

When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.

7

Albert Camus

You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.

8

Jim Caviezel

Anything that I undergo, I look at as redemptive suffering.

9

Sheri Fink

A patient healthy enough to undergo a kidney transplant might someday no longer need dialysis. That would free up a slot for a new patient.

10

Henri La Fontaine

Belgium thinks that however great the peril which a country might have to undergo under the system which we seek to establish here, that country ought to do its duty.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «UNDERGO»

Discover the use of undergo in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to undergo and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.

Defense Budget: Capital Asset Projects Undergo Significant ...

Investigates the Department of Defense's (DoD) capital asset needs in an annual Defense Business Operations Fund (DBOF) capital budget.

DIANE Publishing Company, 1995

The Linguistics of Speech

Table 5.3 T wenly tokens of undergo from the Brown and Frown corpora (edited to remove coding and partial words) 10 11 12 13 14 15 l6 17 18 19 20 for the San Francisco 49ers of the National Football League, will undergo a knee operation ...

William A. Kretzschmar, 2009

The Biogenesis of Cellular Organelles

Undergo. Fusion. and. Fission. Dynamics. of. Fusion. and. Fission. The endocytic apparatus traffics molecules by vesicular fusion and fission, yet the organelles of this apparatus remain fairly discreet. This implies a high degree of regulation in ...

Chris Mullins, 2005

Drug Metabolism: Chemical and Enzymatic Aspects

The hydroxamic acid can undergo conjugation: acetylation, glucuronidation, and sulfation. The sulfate may be sufficiently reactive to form a glutathione conjugate. The amide bond is hydrolyzed to the aromatic amine (16) and the carboxylic ...

Jack P. Uetrecht, William Trager, 2007

U.S. Coast Guard, DOT (Parts 70 - 89)

5, 2004] §71.50-3 Drydock examination, internal structural examination, underwater survey, and alternate hull exam intervals. (a) If your vessel is operated on international voyages, it must undergo a drydock and internal structural examination ...

Griffes

Fish Diseases and Disorders

Following plasmotomy, the cells either undergo further nuclear divisions to produce more multinucleate stages (2) or produce a two— and then four—nuclei cell (3). Plasmotomy follows to produce four cells, two of which envelop the other two ...

P. T. K. Woo, John F. Leatherland, 2006

Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2006: Selected ...

Tables 10-12 show that non-coronal vowels /a, o/ in singular determiners and prepositional articles tend to undergo VE (nearly) categorically in prevocalic context (obligatory VE). The only singular determiners whose final vowels do not  ...

Danièle Torck, Leo Wetzels, 2009

Polymer Science and Technology

Second, termination in ionic polymerization involves the unimolecular reaction of a chain with its counterion or a transfer reaction with the remnant species unable to undergo propagation. In contrast to radical chain polymerization, this ...

Robert O. Ebewele, 2000

The Satapatha Brahmana, Part I:

If any onewereto curse himat the second (verse), heshouldsayto him, ' Therebythou hast put thine own inbreathing intothefire:by that inbreathingofthine shaltthou undergo suffering!'for thisis what wouldtake place. 13. If one were to curse him at ...

Julius Eggeling, 2014

Code of Federal Regulations Title 46, Shipping Parts 70-89, ...

5, 2004] §71.50-3 Drydock examination, internal structural examination, underwater survey, and alternate hull exam intervals. (a) If your vessel is operated on international voyages, it must undergo a drydock and internal structural examination ...

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10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «UNDERGO»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term undergo is used in the context of the following news items.

Donny Osmond to Undergo Vocal Cord Surgery

Donny Osmond will be undergoing vocal cord surgery in the near future, his rep tells PEOPLE exclusively. During a recent examination, doctors discovered the ... «People Magazine, Jul 15»

Mom Accused Of Setting Newborn Baby On Fire Will Undergo …

MOUNT HOLLY, N.J. (AP) — A New Jersey woman accused of setting her newborn on fire and leaving her in the middle of a street to die will undergo a mental ... «Huffington Post, Jun 15»

Valencia State College Students Sue Over Pressure To Undergo …

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) -- Two former students in a Florida community college ultrasound program say they were punished for objecting to a policy that encouraged ... «Huffington Post, May 15»

Seahawks' Jesse Williams to Undergo Kidney Surgery After Being …

The Seahawks announced today that defensive tackle Jesse Williams will undergo kidney surgery after being diagnosed with Papillary Type 2 cancer. «The Seattle Times, May 15»

Raonic to undergo surgery, out of Rome Masters

"I will be undergoing surgery to repair a nerve in my right foot. I withdrew from Rome to be ready to compete as soon as possible," the 24-year-old said on Twitter ... «Reuters, May 15»

Cassandra C, Teen Forced to Undergo Chemo, Is Ready to Head …

A 17-year-old Connecticut girl forced by the courts to undergo chemotherapy for her cancer has finished that treatment and says she expects to be released from ... «NBCNews.com, Apr 15»

Rob Ford to undergo surgery to remove cancer

“I'm just lucky to be alive today, and I'm just lucky to get another chance at life,” Councillor Rob Ford (open Rob Ford's policard) declared Thursday after learning ... «Toronto Star, Apr 15»

Ozzy Osbourne to Undergo Surgery, Cancels Ozzfiesta in Mexico

Osbourne will undergo surgery following shows in South America, which begin April 25. As previously reported, Black Sabbath will play its final show on Nov. «Billboard, Mar 15»

Teen forced to undergo chemo testifies at custody hearing

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP/WTNH) — A 17-year-old Connecticut girl who the state forced to undergo chemotherapy has testified at a closed door hearing where ... «WTNH, Mar 15»

Teen cancer patient ordered to chemotherapy in remission

HARTFORD, Conn. - A 17-year-old Connecticut girl who was forced to undergo chemotherapy by the state after she and her mother refused treatment is happy ... «CBS News, Mar 15»