Undertook

Word UNDERTOOK
Character 9
Hyphenation un der took
Pronunciations /ʌndəɹˈtʊk/

Definitions and meanings of "Undertook"

What do we mean by undertook?

Imp. of undertake.

Simple past of undertake. verb

To take upon oneself; to start, to embark on (a specific task etc.).

To commit oneself (to an obligation, activity etc.).

To overtake on the wrong side.

To pledge; to assert, assure; to dare say.

To take by trickery; to trap, to seize upon.

To assume, as a character; to take on.

To engage with; to attack, take on in a fight.

To have knowledge of; to hear.

To have or take charge of.

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The word "undertook" in example sentences

McCain undertook to lecture him, saying, in the recollection of one Obama adviser who was there, "Mr. President, you're the commander in chief, and I hope you're not taking your responsibilities lightly." ❋ Matt DeLong (2010)

In 1988, Rabbi Joseph Telushkin undertook a mission to heal “Jewish ignorance,” an affliction whose symptoms include the ability to name the three components of the Trinity, coupled with an inability to explain mitzvah. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The difficulty was choosing what to go to; without missing anything. (very difficult to achieve) I am certain that the format it undertook is very similar to those around the world and briefly will describe for the festival virgins out there what one might entail. ❋ Unknown (2009)

A few years afterwards, Hevel of Dantzic, (1611-1688) a Polish astronomer -- more generally known as Hevelius, his works being all written in Latin -- undertook to correct Galileo's measurements. ❋ Jules Verne (1866)

To tell the truth, I was not sorry to be spared facing her for a while; every body said I required stronger management than a woman's hand, and my cousin undertook to break me in. ❋ Unknown (1845)

Lazi, immediately undertook, is one of the most remarkable actions of the age. ❋ Unknown (1206)

And there is one subject that is of particular importance and responsibility the U.S. and Russia undertook, that is the promotion of international security. ❋ Unknown (2002)

It was after these last London seasons that Mme. Sontag undertook an ❋ Carl Van Vechten (1922)

Mr. Sullivan was bald-headed, and had rather a pleasant face, but there was a look about him that indicated force of character, of a certain kind, and a determination to succeed in what he undertook, which is what makes a good politician. ❋ Howard Roger Garis (1917)

It would perhaps have been well, in the light of later difficulties and failures, if the men who at Washington's call undertook to master the capricious rivers of the seaboard had studied a stately Spanish decree which declared that, since God had not made the rivers of Spain navigable, it were sacrilege for mortals to attempt to do so. ❋ Archer Butler Hulbert (1903)

I come now in the last place to perform what I undertook, which is to prove, That the Scripture was not design'd to teach us Astronomy, no more than Geometry or Chronology: And to make it appear that the two Texts cited by Father Tacquer, viz. that of Psal. ❋ Unknown (1700)

I would like to spend a brief moment on a new initiative that we recently undertook, which is our [H] hotels, or [inaudible] in Chinese. ❋ Unknown (2008)

UN Secretar General Kofi Annan, who brought the warring leaders together in Paris, said Saturday they had "undertook" to accept an immediate truce, then a ceasefire. ❋ Unknown (1998)

I suppose these families live under their roofs of peach-blow tiles, in the midst of their blooming gardens, for a guinea a week or thereabouts; yet if they "undertook" me (to use their own phrase), the bill for my humble meals and bed would be at least double that. ❋ Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin (1889)

Many of these great 'undertakers,' as they were called, were English noblemen who never saw Ireland; but among them were Raleigh and Spenser, who received forty-two thousand and twelve thousand acres respectively, and in consideration of certain patronage 'undertook' to carry the business of the Crown through Parliament. ❋ Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin (1889)

Irish borough-owners, or Undertakers, who "undertook" to carry on the king's business in consideration of receiving the lion's share of the patronage, which they distributed amongst their own adherents. ❋ Emily Lawless (1879)

Polanski also "undertook" not to skip out on his bail in 1977. ❋ Unknown (2009)

This ambition has been shaped not in the interest of taboo-breaking, "she writes, but because" modern Jews "undertook" commercial practices "for" clear historical reasons. " ❋ Stephen Birmingham (2008)

In 597 AD, Augustine, Bishop of Canterbury eventually canonized, yet not to be confused with the earlier Saint Augustine, author of The Confessions, undertook a successful mission to Christianize the island. ❋ Leslie Dunton-Downer (2010)

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