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undergoer

noun

Etymology

From undergo + -er.

  1. inherited from undergān
  2. inherited from undergon
  3. suffixed as undergoer — “undergo + er”

Definitions

  1. One that undergoes.

  2. The most patient-like argument of a clause, e.g. 'the boat' in "The torpedo sank the…

    The most patient-like argument of a clause, e.g. 'the boat' in "The torpedo sank the boat" and "The boat sank".

The neighborhood

  • antonymactorantonym(s) of “grammatical role”

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for undergoer. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA