MEANING
To experience a process, change, or treatment, especially as its subject rather than initiator.
Use it for
Words that belong together
- undergo a change
- undergo examination
On the page
The house underwent changes no photograph recorded.
She underwent the examination without learning who had requested it.
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Word forms
- Base
- undergo
- Past tense
- underwent
- Past participle
- undergone
- Present participle
- undergoing
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- undergo
- Present continuous
- am/is/are undergoing
- Present perfect
- have/has undergone
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been undergoing
- Past
- underwent
- Past continuous
- was/were undergoing
- Past perfect
- had undergone
- Past perfect continuous
- had been undergoing
- Future
- will undergo
- Future continuous
- will be undergoing
- Future perfect
- will have undergone
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been undergoing
Choose the auxiliary that agrees with your subject. These are constructions of one word, not separate entries.
Usage notes
Primary category: literary. Forms: undergo; undergoes; underwent; undergone; undergoing Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Third-person singular: undergoes.
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