Crossword clues for undergo
undergo
- Suffer reverse after intervention by pro-Brexit group
- Suffer in one language and therefore in another
- Leave too little experience
- Become bankrupt, when parts are traded for experience
- Bear park is halved, therefore
- Travel not far enough, so suffer?
- Urged on wild bear
- Receive, as treatment
- Have, as an operation
- Be involved in, as treatment
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
undergo
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
receive/have/undergo training
▪ A small group would receive intensive training, and then would train others.
undergo a change (=be affected by a change)
▪ The body undergoes a number of changes during this time.
undergo an examination (=have one)
▪ All new employees are required to undergo a medical examination.
undergo modification (=be changed)
▪ The policy has undergone considerable modification since it was first introduced.
undergo surgeryformal (= have surgery)
▪ He underwent surgery to remove a bullet from his chest.
▪ There are risks if you choose to undergo surgery.
undergo treatment (=have it)
▪ A few years earlier she'd undergone fertility treatment.
undergone...transformation
▪ In recent years, the movie industry has undergone a dramatic transformation.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
already
▪ She's already undergone an operation to have shrapnel removed from her back.
▪ The canvas has already undergone a light cleaning to remove the accumulations of old varnish which have contributed to its yellowed appearance.
▪ He has already undergone one operation and faces further surgery.
▪ Jeanette Orton from Oxfordshire has already undergone surgery to correct a defect in her right eye.
▪ The system, called Trax, has already undergone 2000 hours of tests.
also
▪ He also underwent several periods of defacto house arrest and trial for treason between 1956 and 1961.
▪ He also underwent seven operations in Chicago by a surgeon who refused to charge the wounded veteran.
▪ The ships of these fleets had also undergone a radical change.
▪ Joe also underwent a rigorous exercise program to rebuild muscles that had atrophied from lack of use.
▪ Midwifery itself is also undergoing a crisis.
▪ Club range officers would also undergo additional training, and the club would put together a long-range plan.
▪ Solicitors also undergo two years of training at work known as articles.
▪ He also undergoes therapy three times a week.
currently
▪ The helmet is designed to limit the rotational forces affecting the head during an impact and is currently undergoing bench tests.
▪ It is currently undergoing late stage human testing.
▪ Currently undergoing a major expansion - watch this space for developments.
▪ It is a luxurious 87-room hotel overlooking the bay and is currently undergoing a complete overhaul at considerable cost.
▪ Completed in 1936, the brewery is currently undergoing a £53 million four-year modernisation programme to renew production facilities.
▪ This is currently undergoing clinical assessment in Britain, and if all goes well will be commercially available within a few years.
▪ Hydro has fitted the PatchSpray system to one of its Chafer sprayers, which is currently undergoing trials.
▪ Turnover was up 10 percent, to £1.5 billion, with 19,000 employees currently undergoing formal training - another record figure.
recently
▪ Difficulties may arise if your company has recently undergone a change in top management, perhaps following a take-over of the business.
▪ Yeltsin, 66, suffers from heart problems, recently underwent bypass surgery and was stricken with pneumonia last month.
▪ He recently underwent an operation but now he is incontinent.
▪ We have recently undergone a hygiene scrutiny by a member of our Health and Safety Department at head office.
▪ The hotel enjoys a good reputation and has recently undergone extensive refurbishing.
■ NOUN
bypass
▪ His son underwent a triple heart bypass operation earlier this year.
▪ People with kidney failure are increasingly undergoing bypass and vessel-opening procedures.
▪ Ashe, now 48, underwent a quadruple bypass operation after a heart attack at the age of 35.
▪ Yeltsin underwent quintuple heart bypass surgery on Nov. 5.
▪ He had just undergone a heart triple bypass.
▪ About 300, 000 patients undergo bypass surgery annually, according to the National Center for Health Statistics.
▪ Yeltsin, 66, suffers from heart problems, recently underwent bypass surgery and was stricken with pneumonia last month.
change
▪ The banking sector has undergone radical changes in recent years with branches closing and staffing rationalised.
▪ But the fact is the course is always undergoing change, and always has, natural and by the hand of man.
▪ The exterior decorations on the synthetic white-stone face underwent repeated changes.
▪ The Smithsonian, like other private and public cultural agencies, is undergoing a fundamental change in the ways it raises money.
▪ It inquires whether the conception of community has undergone any change as a consequence of the crowd phenomenon.
▪ Under these conditions many solids undergo phase changes, and the nature of the accompanying changes in structure can be studied.
▪ Under Roosevelt and Ickes, the Bureau of Reclamation underwent some fundamental changes, the most obvious of which was in size.
conversion
▪ Regulators have undergone a similar conversion.
▪ Their cars can undergo a potentially expensive conversion to the R-134a coolant that is being used in new cars.
▪ At Seletar he had been flying Vildebeest torpedo bombers, and he now underwent a conversion course on to the more modern Beauforts.
▪ Was she undergoing some odd conversion?
▪ He may have received psychotherapy, but has not yet undergone conversion surgery even if he is contemplating it.
country
▪ It is simply this: The vote of 1996 will determine whether the country has undergone a fundamental political realignment.
▪ These so-called country-style hams undergo dry curing, slow smoking, and long drying.
course
▪ Voice over Police motorcyclists have to undergo an intensive training course.
▪ At Seletar he had been flying Vildebeest torpedo bombers, and he now underwent a conversion course on to the more modern Beauforts.
▪ A qualified teacher will have undergone a three-year course consisting of twenty hours a week in college as well as home study.
development
▪ But once established, these lines underwent predictable developments towards increasing specialization - and eventually to overspecialization and extinction.
▪ The first lady said teachers should be expected to undergo mid-career training and development, as lawyers and other professionals do.
▪ In Aspdin's day cement manufacture was undergoing relatively rapid development and many experimenters were working in the field.
▪ At the same time, the makeup of the business is undergoing rapid development.
▪ The critical question was: Why has life undergone this progressive development in the course of time?
examination
▪ All patients underwent an abdominal ultrasound examination before endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography.
▪ Chun began by saying, with a grin, that he felt like a schoolboy undergoing examination in being interviewed by me.
▪ Ballesteros underwent a severe examination two years ago.
▪ By the end of the afternoon, Burrell underwent an examination and was told there is no cause for concern.
▪ During the baseline examinations the subjects underwent a standardised dental examination.
▪ During that time, he has undergone several medical examinations at the request of his father.
▪ Before operation all patients underwent general physical examination and electrocardiographic and lung function studies to determine their general fitness for operation.
▪ It had undergone detailed and lengthy examination by a Select Committee of this House.
experience
▪ At each stage, half the fun comes from sharing the trials and triumphs with friends who are undergoing the same experiences.
▪ In the course of initiation they have undergone a passionate experience of discovery and conversion.
▪ The thought of undergoing such traumatic experiences was unthinkable.
▪ Such persons must undergo further growth experiences, which will enable them to succeed.
▪ He was sure that McAllister was undergoing the same experience.
▪ Here he underwent a fourfold experience, the memory of which teaches me more about his experience and the life of prayer.
heart
▪ His son underwent a triple heart bypass operation earlier this year.
▪ Yeltsin underwent quintuple heart bypass surgery on Nov. 5.
▪ In 1983 he underwent a quadruple heart by-pass operation and retired in 1987.
▪ He did the same thing six months ago when he underwent a heart operation at Washington Hospital Center.
▪ He had just undergone a heart triple bypass.
▪ Scientists found the new strain in an infant boy after he underwent heart surgery.
▪ He has chosen to take early retirement to protect his long-term health having undergone major heart surgery three years ago.
hospital
▪ She was airlifted to Childrens Hospital, where she underwent a battery of tests.
▪ He was taken to Hospital Espanol where he underwent surgery but died at about 3 a.m.
▪ If the Veterans Administration suddenly shifted to vouchers, its hospitals would have to undergo profound and wrenching changes.
▪ She was rushed to Northampton General Hospital where she underwent several hours of surgery, including a tracheotomy operation.
▪ He was later brought to the Mater Hospital and underwent emergency surgery.
▪ He still looked rather tired, having spent several weeks in hospital undergoing treatment for manic depression.
▪ He has remained in hospital since undergoing a 2?-hour operation to remove a blood clot from his brain.
kind
▪ Some people find that the trouble begins when they have the builders in and the house undergoes some kind of dramatic redesigning.
▪ Books and movies appear to be undergoing the same kind of metamorphosis worldwide that is transforming the music business.
▪ When a football player suffers a concussion, the electrical circuitry in his brain undergoes a kind of temporary brown-out.
▪ My poor brother, like many children who undergo this kind of emotional uprooting, wet the bed.
operation
▪ Before operation all patients underwent general physical examination and electrocardiographic and lung function studies to determine their general fitness for operation.
▪ However in 1971 the role and operation of the Fund underwent significant reform.
patient
▪ This is particularly the case for patients undergoing operations.
▪ Case 1-8 A patient who underwent a laparotomy 3 days ago has been oliguric and receiving nasogastric suction since surgery.
▪ A proportion of propulsive waves was noted in patients who had undergone surgery 10 or more years previously.
▪ About 300, 000 patients undergo bypass surgery annually, according to the National Center for Health Statistics.
▪ Such individuals, as in patients who have undergone splenectomy are predisposed to infections and overwhelming sepsis.
▪ Overall, the patients who underwent the pallidotomy had fewer involuntary movements than those who received medicine alone.
▪ While the regime for patients undergoing sclerotherapy is more inconvenient, it is undoubtedly less traumatic.
▪ Perhaps this mess will prompt a more thorough check of the suitability of patients before they undergo such long and expensive treatment.
period
▪ He also underwent several periods of defacto house arrest and trial for treason between 1956 and 1961.
▪ Britain has undergone three periods of revolutionary change.
▪ Organised at state level, the Guard is composed of part-timers who undergo a statutory period of training with the regular Army.
▪ A student undergoes a prolonged period of performing stamina exercises aimed at raising the heart rate and improving overall fitness.
▪ Boys undergo no period of constraint, in contrast to their lot among the Shavante.
▪ The universe would have then undergone a period of rapid expansion, as in the inflationary models.
▪ Indeed, in order to develop properly, brine shrimp eggs have to undergo a period of desiccation.
procedure
▪ Comparison of 50 patients undergoing this procedure with those having a circumcision during the same period has highlighted its advantages.
▪ The Atlantis boosters underwent the same repair procedure as those that launched Columbia.
▪ For patients who undergo major procedures, rehabilitation is a longer process.
▪ Gerald Furr underwent the procedure Nov. 11 with great hopes.
▪ Claire is one of three patients so far to undergo the procedure under the supervision of consultant orthopaedic surgeon Richard Montgomery.
process
▪ Men with potential were sent to torture school and underwent a process of desensitisation.
▪ If you let it happen, you undergo an automatic recovery process in the course of facing and dealing with new realities.
▪ Allusions to other texts frequently undergo this same process of depreciation.
▪ Unlike Big Ideas that beget standardized commodities, these products undergo a continuous process of incremental change and adaptation.
▪ The turboprop has also undergone a maturing process that now makes it an easy engine to work on and spectacularly reliable.
▪ In a little under a year this insecure High School drop-out had undergone a process of deification by press and public.
▪ The glass used in those roofs undergoes a special toughening process involving heat treatment followed by rapid cooling.
revolution
▪ By that time, western New York was undergoing a revolution in transportation.
▪ Pharmaceutical companies are undergoing a revolution as bioengineered yeast cells replace toxic, solvent-intense chemicals to create medicinal drugs.
series
▪ The control subjects did not receive either placebo or loperamide oxide tablets but underwent an identical series of measurements on one occasion.
▪ Unfortunately, the very live bat bit back, and Osbourne underwent a painful series of precautionary rabies injections.
▪ From the autumn of 1916 the politics of the war underwent a series of rapid transformations.
▪ Since then, Kleine has undergone a series of tests, including cardiovascular and neurological exams.
surgery
▪ With the help of cosmetic surgery she undergoes a dramatic transformation to re-emerge as Silver.
▪ He's still shocked after his injuries and the major surgery he underwent.
test
▪ She was airlifted to Childrens Hospital, where she underwent a battery of tests.
▪ Reluctantly, Rob persuades Suzanne to undergo tests.
▪ The helmet is designed to limit the rotational forces affecting the head during an impact and is currently undergoing bench tests.
▪ Since then, Kleine has undergone a series of tests, including cardiovascular and neurological exams.
▪ The patients also are examined, and undergo laboratory tests, based on their complaints.
▪ His partner in crime, Myra Hindley, also underwent tests after collapsing in her cell at Highpoint prison.
▪ He and I exchanged sharp words when he informed me that the hamster would have to undergo the rabies test.
training
▪ Store detectives undergo extensive training routines which include role playing and watching videos of mock incidents.
▪ All members of this sub-committee have undergone training in selection and interviewing skills.
▪ Between 1983 and 1987 just over 2,000 underwent specialist training with 82 percent completing the courses successfully.
▪ Once ordained, clergy usually undergo some continuing training for a year or two.
▪ For more than ten years, general practice has required that doctors must now undergo further training.
▪ From next week, all bouncers will undergo a compulsory two-week training course and examination run by Northumbria police.
▪ Solicitors also undergo two years of training at work known as articles.
▪ All its managers undergo an extensive training programme, and their career development is greatly encouraged.
transformation
▪ Indeed food manufacture as a whole underwent a transformation.
▪ It is rare for a person to undergo a dramatic transformation in his political thinking, but it does happen.
▪ They grow by a series of moults but never pass through a pupal stage or undergo transformation.
▪ The man has undergone a mind-bending political transformation.
▪ Since those heady days the bar and its clientele have undergone a transformation.
▪ And, in Coconut Grove, I always underwent a dramatic transformation from nail-polishing stewardess to a freer, more questioning self.
▪ Around it, the society of a recovering Sussex was undergoing considerable transformation.
▪ Since Bill Clinton took office, Hillary has undergone as many role transformations as her husband has ideological reincarnations.
transplant
▪ Six patients who underwent eight transplants died.
▪ When he was 18 months old he underwent a kidney transplant.
▪ Five of these patients who underwent seven transplants died.
▪ The long term prospects of the 48 year old man who underwent liver transplant are good.
▪ Two of three patients referred died without transplantation: one underwent transplant and survived.
▪ He did not therefore undergo transplant.
▪ Laura underwent a liver-bowel transplant at Pittsburgh Children's Hospital five months ago.
treatment
▪ But top psychiatrist Professor Stuart Fischoff says if Diana underwent treatment it could mean the end of her marriage.
▪ Not all cancer patients prefer to continue working while undergoing treatment.
▪ The couple are still undergoing intensive treatment for injuries caused by the attempt on their lives.
▪ Pain-Free Progesterone: Women undergoing infertility treatment are sometimes required to undergo daily injections to deliver the hormone progesterone.
▪ Simon has now cut right down on the amount of time he spend playing and has also undergone treatment from his doctor.
▪ The taxi was driven by Michael Allenby, 32, from Darlington, who underwent treatment for whiplash injuries.
▪ Since September, du Pont has been undergoing treatment at a state psychiatric hospital after being diagnosed as a paranoid schizophrenic.
trial
▪ Hydro has fitted the PatchSpray system to one of its Chafer sprayers, which is currently undergoing trials.
▪ The actor, director and playwright Steven Berkoff is to undergo a civil trial for rape.
▪ Developed by International over 18 months, Seacontrol has undergone extensive trials on ships around the world.
woman
▪ More women are now undergoing cosmetic surgery more and more often.
▪ These practical worries add to the emotional turmoil a woman will already be undergoing.
▪ The researchers studied levels of cotinine - a product of nicotine - in women undergoing assisted conception.
▪ By contrast, the image of woman does undergo a transformation within the aesthetic of the New Sculpture.
▪ The women must undergo monthly medical check-ups.
■ VERB
require
▪ Rather than increasing the sentence, three appeal court judges substituted a three-year probation order requiring him to undergo treatment or counselling.
▪ Pain-Free Progesterone: Women undergoing infertility treatment are sometimes required to undergo daily injections to deliver the hormone progesterone.
▪ Medical Examination All prospective employees are required to undergo a medical examination at a medical establishment nominated by the Company.
▪ The Air Force was right to suspend training and require pilots to undergo several hours of review on joint air space regulations.
▪ Twice a year, flight attendants were required to undergo a review of emergency and first-aid procedures.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ At that time she was undergoing tremendous emotional problems following the breakup of her marriage.
▪ He underwent major heart surgery last year.
▪ He has undergone tremendous emotional problems following the breakdown of his marriage.
▪ In March he underwent surgery for the cancer.
▪ In the last few years the museum has undergone extensive renovation.
▪ Part of Mrs Galley's right arm was shattered and she underwent a five-hour emergency operation.
▪ The computer industry has undergone some major changes over the past 15 years.
▪ The hostages were eventually released after undergoing a terrifying ordeal.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ He was taken to Hospital Espanol where he underwent surgery but died at about 3 a.m.
▪ She has undergone three hip replacement surgeries in the last three years.
▪ Store detectives undergo extensive training routines which include role playing and watching videos of mock incidents.
▪ The body politic may have undergone radical surgery and it may have aged considerably, but it has continued to endure.
▪ They not only reprimanded her, but made her undergo counseling sessions -- in other words, mandatory brain-washing.
▪ Under these conditions many solids undergo phase changes, and the nature of the accompanying changes in structure can be studied.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Undergo
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.]
To go or move below or under. [Obs.]
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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.
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To be the bearer of; to possess. [Obs.]
Their virtues else, be they as pure as grace, As infinite as man may undergo.
--Shak. -
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. -
To be subject or amenable to; to underlie. [Obs.]
Claudio undergoes my challenge.
--Shak.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
undergo
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 "to pass through" (an alteration, etc.) is attested from 1630s. Related: Undergone; underwent.
Wiktionary
undergo
vb. 1 (context transitive obsolete English) To go or move under or beneath. 2 (context transitive English) To experience; to pass through a phase.
WordNet
undergo
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, receive, have, get]
go or live through; "We had many trials to go through"; "he saw action in Viet Nam" [syn: experience, see, go through]
accept or undergo, often unwillingly; "We took a pay cut" [syn: take, submit]
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.