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Be subjected to
Answer for the clue "Be subjected to ", 7 letters:
undergo
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Word definitions for undergo in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context transitive obsolete English) To go or move under or beneath. 2 (context transitive English) To experience; to pass through a phase.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English undergan "obtain, get; undertake," from under + gan (see go (v.)). Compare similarly formed Middle Dutch ondergaen , Old High German untarkun , German untergehen , Danish undergaa . Sense of "submit to, endure" is attested from c.1300. Meaning ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
v. of mental or physical states or experiences; "get an idea"; "experience vertigo"; "get nauseous"; "undergo a strange sensation"; "The chemical undergoes a sudden change"; "The fluid undergoes shear"; "receive injuries"; "have a feeling" [syn: experience ...
Usage examples of undergo.
Rutterman drove Major Banning to the Navy Building, where Banning underwent four separate security screenings before reaching his destination.
Business had undergone a boomlet recently, and there were several items he would have to reorder.
His position at Farthing had undergone a most unpleasant change, which he could only attribute to the orders he had been given by Inspector Stewart.
Hotel and Surgical Institute and undergone a painless operation for the cure of hydrocele and varicocele--which was performed to my entire satisfaction.
Not as easy to bleach, but the alum they used in the wood-pulp process undergoes hydrolysis and produces sulphuric acid.
The girl, by then a twenty-nine-year-old woman, underwent intensive counselling sessions including hypnotherapy which had allegedly caused her to recall scenes that she had previously blanked out of her mind.
The arm was stiff, as if undergoing a Medusan metamorphosis: flesh into stone.
Menstruation, or the menses, monthly visitation, catamenia, menstrual flow, courses, or periods, usually makes its appearance in the female between the twelfth and fifteenth years, at which time the reproductive system undergoes remarkable changes.
Nero himself is now undergoing the same kind of invasive, sadistic, yet scientific investigation that he and his friends meted out to the poor animals.
Bette Midler, undergoes a very funny character-transformation during her confinement.
Sheldon Morgenstern, whose father was a cantor and whose mother had wanted her son to become a CPA, subtly undergoes a sea-change from publicity man for the great Stag Preston to pimp for the great, horny Stag Preston.
Hospital in Santa Monica, where she underwent the Rorschach Test, the Thematic Apperception Test, the Sentence Completion Test and the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Index.
I will not attempt to explain the intricacies of an Irish lawsuit farther than to note that, owing to some deficiency in their pleas, the trespassers underwent a nonsuit, or some analogous doom, and went gloomily away without having even the satisfaction of a fair fight in court.
He underwent splenectomy, distal pancreatectomy, and closure of a hole in his left colon.
Thesethen undergo photochemical reactions in the lower atmosphere and yieldthe highly toxic gas ozone inthe presence of sunlight.