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went under

verb as in fail, submerge

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He went under anesthesia 13 times in six months, required monthly breathing treatments that made him spit gray foam, and lost most of the brow and all the lashes around the affected eye.

The item went under the hammer at NLB Auctions in Paignton on Saturday with bidders in the room, on the phone and online.

From BBC

The song is one of Dylan's most famous hits and the draft pages were among 60 items belonging to the singer that went under the hammer in the city of Nashville.

From BBC

Such was the breathtaking nature of the catches, Alana King's 5-46 went under the radar, while Wareham added a vital two wickets to her batting cameo as England lost another seven wickets to spin.

From BBC

Boki, a brown bear at Wildwood Trust near Canterbury, Kent, went under the knife on Wednesday in an operation that took five and a half hours - rather than the expected two and a half hours.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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