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undercome

verb

  1. To come under; experience or suffer the effects of; be affected by; undergo.

    transitive

    […] that is field dependent, and due to the fact that the beam coming from the guide star and the beam coming from another angular direction cross slightly different parts of the atmosphere medium, therefore undercome slightly different phase perturbations.

  2. To submit; submit to; subvene

    transitive

    A third order time domain approach based on the code SWAN has also been undercome […]

  3. To come through.

    intransitive

    So I think we're all on journeys, according to how we're able to travel, overcome, undercome, and share what we have learned.

Where it comes from

From Middle English *undercomen, from Old English undercuman (“to come under, submit, assist”), from Proto-Germanic *under (“under”) + *kwemaną (“to come”), equivalent to under- + come. Cognate with West Frisian ûnderkomme (“to shelter, come under”), Dutch onderkomen (“to shelter, find accommodation”), German unterkommen (“to stay, find accommodation, find a job”), Icelandic undirkoma (“to come under”).

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry undercome (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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