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  • verb Past participle of undergo

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Examples

  • The further revision and preparation that the letters have undergone is shortly this.

    The Love Letters of Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple, 1652-54 Parry, Edward A 1901

  • The further revision and preparation that the letters have undergone is shortly this.

    Letters from Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple (1652-54) 1888

  • The wild driving he had undergone from the field to the stable-yard, with the treacherous capture at the end, still rankled in his mind, and the cruel outrage to his young heart's nervous shyness, when hands of violent men overcame him, and the fatal noose was slipped over his head, was not to be forgotten.

    Parables From Nature 1857

  • As this was the first well fortified town which we had seen, it was to us a matter of no ordinary interest, which was encreased by the remembrance of the celebrated siege which it had undergone from the English army at the commencement of the revolutionary war.

    Travels in France during the years 1814-15 Comprising a residence at Paris, during the stay of the allied armies, and at Aix, at the period of the landing of Bonaparte, in two volumes. Archibald Alison 1829

  • No Sin Left Behind yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'No Sin Left Behind'; yahooBuzzArticleSummary = 'Article: Public interrogations of piety and faith, such as undergone by the Democratic candidates earlier this week, amount to a sort of religious litmus test for public office.

    No Sin Left Behind 2007

  • “In the first place, I must remark that these human remains, which are in my possession, are characterized like thousands of bones which I have lately been disinterring, by the extent of the decomposition which they have undergone, which is precisely the same as that of the extinct species: all, with a few exceptions, are broken; some few are rounded, as is frequently found to be the case in fossil remains of other species.

    Essays 2007

  • "In the first place, I must remark that these human remains, which are in my possession, are characterized like thousands of bones which I have lately been disinterring, by the extent of the decomposition which they have undergone, which is precisely the same as that of the extinct species: all, with a few exceptions, are broken; some few are rounded, as is frequently found to be the case in fossil remains of other species.

    On Some Fossil Remains of Man Thomas Henry Huxley 1860

  • "In the first place, I must remark that these human remains, which are in my possession, are characterized like thousands of bones which I have lately been disinterring, by the extent of the decomposition which they have undergone, which is precisely the same as that of the extinct species: all, with a few exceptions, are broken; some few are rounded, as is frequently found to be the case in fossil remains of other species.

    Lectures and Essays Thomas Henry Huxley 1860

  • The backdrop for any discussion of trends in racial attitudes must be that over the last forty years America has undergone a dramatic transformation in opinions on race.

    American Grace Robert D. Putnam 2010

  • That detail sticks in her mind, and she ends up leaving the seedy abortion clinic without having undergone the procedure.

    American Grace Robert D. Putnam 2010

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