Afford vs Undergo - What's the difference?
afford | undergo |
To incur, stand, or bear without serious detriment, as an act which might under other circumstances be injurious;—with an auxiliary, as can, could, might, etc.; to be able or rich enough.
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*:“[…] We are engaged in a great work, a treatise on our river fortifications, perhaps? But since when did army officers afford the luxury of amanuenses in this simple republic?”
To offer, provide, or supply, as in selling, granting, expending, with profit, or without loss or too great injury.
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To give forth; to supply, yield, or produce as the natural result, fruit, or issue.
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To give, grant, or confer, with a remoter reference to its being the natural result; to provide; to furnish.
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, passage=One morning I had been driven to the precarious refuge afforded by the steps of the inn, after rejecting offers from the Celebrity to join him in a variety of amusements. But even here I was not free from interruption, for he was seated on a horse-block below me, playing with a fox terrier.}}
*{{quote-news, year=2012, date=April 29, author=Nathan Rabin
, title= (obsolete) To go or move under or beneath.
To experience; to pass through a phase.
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, author=Paul Bartel, Ashli Moore
, title=Avian Migration: The Ultimate Red-Eye Flight
, volume=101, issue=1, page=47–48
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To suffer or endure; bear with.
As verbs the difference between afford and undergo
is that afford is to incur, stand, or bear without serious detriment, as an act which might under other circumstances be injurious;—with an auxiliary, as can, could, might, etc; to be able or rich enough while undergo is (obsolete) to go or move under or beneath.afford
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Alternative forms
* afoord, affoord, affoard, affowrd (obsolete)Verb
(en verb)TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Treehouse of Horror III” (season 4, episode 5; originally aired 10/29/1992), passage=Writing a “Treehouse Of Horror”segment has to be both exhilarating and daunting. It’s exhilarating because it affords writers all the freedom in the world.}}
Usage notes
* Sense 1. This is a catenative verb that takes the to infinitive . SeeDerived terms
* affordable * affordance * offer affordancesundergo
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- The project is undergoing great changes.
- The victim underwent great trauma.
- She had to undergo surgery because of her broken leg.
