Undergo vs Underwent - What's the difference?
undergo | underwent |
(obsolete) To go or move under or beneath.
To experience; to pass through a phase.
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To suffer or endure; bear with.
(undergo)
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As verbs the difference between undergo and underwent
is that undergo is to go or move under or beneath while underwent is simple past of undergo.undergo
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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.
Anagrams
* English irregular verbsunderwent
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(head)- The repeated exposure, over decades, to most taxa here treated has resulted in repeated modifications of both diagnoses and discussions, as initial ideas of the various taxa underwent —often repeated—conceptual modification.