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Undertake vs Underget - What's the difference?

undertake | underget |

As verbs the difference between undertake and underget

is that undertake is (label) to take upon oneself; to start, to embark on (a specific task etc) while underget is (obsolete) to understand; perceive.

undertake

English

Verb

  • (label) To take upon oneself; to start, to embark on (a specific task etc.).
  • *(John Milton) (1608-1674)
  • *:To second, or oppose, or undertake / The perilous attempt.
  • (label) To commit oneself (to an obligation, activity etc.).
  • :
  • *(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
  • *:I'll undertake to land them on our coast.
  • (label) To overtake on the wrong side.
  • :
  • To pledge; to assert, assure; to dare say.
  • *, Bk.VII:
  • *:"I have now aspyed one knyght," he seyde, "that woll play hys play at the justys, I undirtake ."
  • *(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
  • *:And those two counties I will undertake / Your grace shall well and quietly enjoiy.
  • *(John Dryden) (1631-1700)
  • *:And he was not right fat, I undertake .
  • * (1665-1728)
  • *:I dare undertake they will not lose their labour.
  • To take by trickery; to trap, to seize upon.
  • *:
  • *:there came fourty knyghtes to sire Darras // So sire Tristram endured there grete payne / for sekenesse had vndertake hym / and that is the grettest payne a prysoner maye haue
  • (label) To assume, as a character; to take on.
  • :(Shakespeare)
  • (label) To engage with; to attack.
  • *(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
  • *:It is not fit your lordship should undertake every companion that you give offence to.
  • (label) To have knowledge of; to hear.
  • :(Spenser)
  • (label) To have or take charge of.
  • *(Geoffrey Chaucer) (c.1343-1400)
  • *:Keep well those that ye undertake .
  • *(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
  • *:who undertakes you to your end

    • Usage notes

    * Sense: To commit oneself. This is a catenative verb that takes the to infinitive. * See

    Derived terms

    * undertaker * undertaking

    underget

    English

    Verb

  • (obsolete) To understand; perceive.
  • To receive; undertake; get at; find out.
  • *1993 , A.R. Genazzani, G. D'Ambrogi, Current Investigations in Gynecology and Obstetrics :
    • Before treatment all subjects underget a mammography and blood samples were taken to value hepatic funtionality, lipidic and aemocoagulative patterns.
  • *1998 , John William Van Zee, T. F. Fuller, Electrochemical Society. Industrial Electrolysis and Electrochemical Engineering Division, Advances in mathematical modeling and simulation of electrochemical process :
    • Data were calculated by common statistical procedure (Excel 5.0 for Windows, LINEST) and underget by Inductive Regressive Analysis (3).
  • To get less than expected or due.
  • *1885 , Edmund B. Ivatts, Railway management at stations :
    • Some companies hold their clerks responsible to account for the actual amount of the fares on tickets sold, and ignore the question of overgot and undergot money.
  • *1923 , Charles Vickers, Metals and their alloys :
    • Those that underpay, underget .

    Derived terms

    * (l)