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Undergoing

Undergo \Un`der*go"\, v. t. [imp. Underwent; p. p. Undergone (?; 115); p. pr. & vb. n. Undergoing.] [AS. underg[=a]n. See Under, and Go.]

  1. To go or move below or under. [Obs.]

  2. To be subjected to; to bear up against; to pass through; to endure; to suffer; to sustain; as, to undergo toil and fatigue; to undergo pain, grief, or anxiety; to undergothe operation of amputation; food in the stomach undergoes the process of digestion.

    Certain to undergo like doom.
    --Milton.

  3. To be the bearer of; to possess. [Obs.]

    Their virtues else, be they as pure as grace, As infinite as man may undergo.
    --Shak.

  4. To undertake; to engage in; to hazard. [Obs.]

    I have moved already Some certain of the noblest-minded Romans To undergo with me an enterprise.
    --Shak.

  5. To be subject or amenable to; to underlie. [Obs.]

    Claudio undergoes my challenge.
    --Shak.

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undergoing

vb. (present participle of undergo English)

Usage examples of "undergoing".

Instead of nutritive energy, which by assimilation produces perfect bodily textures, this function, in the scrofulous diathesis, is deranged by debility, and there is left in the tissues an imperfectly organized particle, incapable of undergoing a complete vital change, around which cluster other particles of tubercular matter, forming little grains, like millet seed, or growing, by new accretions of like particles, to masses of more extensive size.

The body is continually undergoing change, and vital action implies waste of tissues, as well as their growth.

The shape of the red corpuscles is only altered by external influences, but the white are constantly undergoing alterations, the result of changes taking place within their own substance.

At the present time, the aboriginal inhabitants of this continent seem to be surely undergoing gradual extinguishment!

We believe that medicine is undergoing a gradual change from the darkness of the past, with its ignorance, superstition, and barbarism, to the light of a glorious future.

While there I became acquainted with many undergoing treatment for various chronic and surgical diseases, and all were unanimous in their praise of the Institution.

In the case in which this large amount of stone was removed we feel certain that a cure could not possibly have resulted from a cutting operation, as the heart was seriously affected, and the physical condition of the patient so low, as the result of years of suffering, that death would have occurred while undergoing the operation.

He could tell by his posture, hunched in on himself as if in concealment, that he was undergoing the same epiphany.

He knew the old man was in because he had seen his weather-beaten boat tied to the dock, its grimy engine mounted on a stump nearby, undergoing the perpetual repairs.

I hasten to add that I am not speaking of those who are undergoing operations, who think only of themselves and their own lives.

Again, we have the response undergoing an actual reversal when the tissue is stale.

The ultimate states of happiness are ceaselessly undergoing the most delightful renovations, without which, indeed, no finite being could endure the tedium of eternity.

Some are shown undergoing punishment, beaten with hammers, stabbed and torn by black demons.

Hundreds of paintings in the tombs show souls undergoing their respective allotments in the other world while their bodily mummies are quiet in the sepulchres of the present.

The Buddhists of Ceylon preserve a legend of the elevation of one of the royal descendants of Maha Sammata to the superior heavens without undergoing death.