undergo
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology
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1996
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undergo pt.
-went, pp.
-gone †undermine OE.; †pass under XIII; endure, submit to; experience XVI. Late OE.
undergān (with Gmc. cogns.); see UNDER-1,
GO.
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