Difference between Undergo and Get

What is the difference between Undergo and Get?

Undergo as a verb is to experience; to pass through a phase. while Get as a verb is to obtain, purchase or acquire.

Undergo

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To experience; to pass through a phase. To suffer or endure.

Example sentence: True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.

Get

Part of speech: noun

Definition: Offspring.Lineage.A difficult return or block of a shot.A git.A Jewish writ of divorce.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To obtain, purchase or acquire.To receive.To fetch.To become.To cause to become; to bring about.(used with preposition) To don or doff clothing, etc.To cause to do.To betake oneself.To arrive (at) or progress (towards a place or outcome).To go or come (to a specified place, or in a specified manner).To adopt or assume (a certain position or state).To begin (doing something).To take or catch (a scheduled transportation service).To respond to (a telephone call, a doorbell, etc).To be able, permitted (to do something); to have the opportunity (to do something).To understand.To be (used to form the passive of verbs).To become ill with or catch (a disease).To catch out, trick successfully.To perplex, stump.To find as an answer.To bring to reckoning; to catch (as a criminal).To physically assault.To hear completely; catch.To getter.

Example sentence: Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.

We hope you now know whether to use Undergo or Get in your sentence.

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