Undertake

Quick meaning: Undertake is a verb meaning (transitive) To take upon oneself; to start, to embark on (a specific task etc.).

Meaning

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

More Meanings

1. (intransitive) To commit oneself (to an obligation, activity etc.).
2. (British, informal) To pass a slower moving vehicle on the curbside rather than on the side closest to oncoming traffic.
3. (archaic, intransitive) To pledge; to assert, assure; to dare say.
4. (obsolete, transitive) To take by trickery; to trap, to seize upon.
5. (obsolete) To assume, as a character; to take on.
6. (obsolete) To engage with; to attack, take on in a fight.
7. (obsolete) To have knowledge of; to hear.

Example Sentences

He undertook to exercise more in future.

Quince. […] you must needs play Pyramus. Bottom. Well, I will undertake it.

It is not fit your lordship should undertake every companion that you give offence to.

That is her ransom; I deliver her; And those two counties I will undertake Your grace shall well and quietly enjoy.

Word Forms

• undertakes
• undertaking
• undertook
• undertaken
• undirtake

Synonyms for undertake

Depending on context, synonyms include tackle, contract, attempt, guarantee.

Antonyms for undertake

Common opposites include overtake.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include attempt, guarantee, contract, tackle, get, attain.

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