undergo

Meaning

Verb

• To go or move under or beneath.
• To experience; to pass through a phase.
• To suffer or endure; bear with.

Related

Similar words

• go through, take, undercome

Origin

• 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").