Accept
Undergo
Undergo verb - To come to a knowledge of (something) by living through it.
Usage example: some people undergo a complete transformation while away at college
Accept and undergo are semantically related in take topic. Sometimes you can use "Accept" instead a verb "Undergo".
Nearby Words: undergoing, undergone
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In the Discworld novel Going Postal, Moist von Lipwig has to undergo "The Postman's Walk" before the other postmen will accept him as the new Postmaster.
Source: Initiation Ceremony - Contrast with Neil Gaiman's The Sandman, which is a moody, semi-gothic series about Morpheus, god of dreams, imagination and stories, who refuses to accept that everything changes and desperately tries to stay the same only to ultimately fail and undergo change by being reborn in a new body.
Source: Spiritual Antithesis -
In something of a subversion of the trope, it is suggested that a great many people annually undergo but reject the awakening, with the number of those who accept it decreasing every year (a sobering thought for mages).
Source: Red Pill, Blue Pill
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