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undertaken 音标拼音: ['ʌndɚt ,ekən] vbl. undertaked的过去分词 undertaked的过去分词 Undertake \ Un` der* take"\, v. t. [ imp. { Undertook}; p. p. { Undertaken}; p. pr. & vb. n. { Undertaking}.] [ Under take.] 1. To take upon one' s self; to engage in; to enter upon; to take in hand; to begin to perform; to set about; to attempt. [ 1913 Webster] To second, or oppose, or undertake The perilous attempt. -- Milton. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Specifically, to take upon one' s self solemnly or expressly; to lay one' s self under obligation, or to enter into stipulations, to perform or to execute; to covenant; to contract. [ 1913 Webster] I ' ll undertake to land them on our coast. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] 3. Hence, to guarantee; to promise; to affirm. [ 1913 Webster] And he was not right fat, I undertake. -- Dryden. [ 1913 Webster] And those two counties I will undertake Your grace shall well and quietly enjoiy. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] I dare undertake they will not lose their labor. -- Woodward. [ 1913 Webster] 4. To assume, as a character. [ Obs.] -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] 5. To engage with; to attack. [ Obs.] [ 1913 Webster] It is not fit your lordship should undertake every companion that you give offense to. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] 6. To have knowledge of; to hear. [ Obs.] -- Spenser. [ 1913 Webster] 7. To take or have the charge of. [ Obs.] " Who undertakes you to your end." -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] Keep well those that ye undertake. -- Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster] 20 Moby Thesaurus words for " undertaken": accepted, agreed, arranged, assumed, chanced, compacted, contracted, covenanted, engaged, in hand, in process, in progress, in the works, on the anvil, promised, sealed, settled, signed, stipulated, under way
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