Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: underwent
IPA transcription: [,ʌndɚw'ɛnt]
Pronunciations of underwent
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Usage examples
  • The inexorable finger underwent no change.
  • We know, now what you underwent when you suspected my descent, and when you knew it.
  • On his giving this answer the demeanour of the image of God underwent a remarkable change.
  • The battery itself soon underwent modifications, and new types were evolved--the storage, the double-fluid, and the dry.
  • The quartz rock must have been quite pasty when it underwent such remarkable flexures without being shattered into fragments.
  • Her confined life at the lighthouse and the exposure she underwent there resulted in the disease of consumption from which she rapidly wasted away.
  • The steam-engine at the same time opened up the long line of mechanical inventions by which wood and iron are shaped and wrought, and the iron industry underwent notable developments.
  • Whatever came in his way, the tragedy or comedy of his daily life, his moods of passion and apathy, the aspirations of his better moments, all underwent the same disintegrating process.
  • He underwent various changes according to the accepted custom in these cases, and long before this story begins his bones even had become dust, and were scattered to the four quarters of heaven.
  • "I challenge the candidate to deny," said the man, as soon as he could be heard, "that his real name is Silas Kegworthy, and that he underwent three years' penal servitude for murderously assaulting his wife."
0. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Munich, License CC BY-SA 4.0
1. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Canada, License CC BY-SA 4.0
2. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording George VI, License CC BY-SA 4.0