Accept and Undergo

Accept

Accept verb - To agree to receive whether willingly or reluctantly.

Undergo and accept are semantically related in take topic. In some cases you can use "Undergo" instead a verb "Accept", when it comes to topics like stand, tolerate.

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

Common collocations

change accept change undergo change
fate accept fate undergo fate
death accept death undergo death
punishment accept punishment undergo punishment
Other words: mission, quest.

Both words in one sentence

  • Initiation Ceremony 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.
  • 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.
  • Red Pill, Blue Pill 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).
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