Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for UN-DER-GO'
UN-DER-GO', v.t.
- To suffer; to endure something burdensome or painful to the body or the mind; as, to undergo toil and fatigue; to undergo pain; to undergo grief or anxiety; to undergo the operation of amputation.
- To pass through. Bread in the stomach undergoes the process of digestion; it undergoes a material alteration.
- To sustain without fainting, yielding or sinking. Can you undergo the operation or the fatigue?
- To be the bearer of; to possess. Virtues – As infinite as man may undergo. [Not in use.] Shak.
- To support; to hazard. I have mov'd certain Romans To undergo with me an enterprise. [Obs.] Shak.
- To be subject to. Claudio undergoes my challenge. [Obs.] Shak.
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