verb
- Go or live through.
- usage: "We had many trials to go through"; "he saw action in Viet Nam"
- synonyms: experience, see, go through
- Have firsthand knowledge of states, situations, emotions, or sensations.
- usage: "I know the feeling"; "have you ever known hunger"; "I have lived a kind of hell when I was a drug addict"; "The holocaust survivors have lived a nightmare"; "I lived through two divorces"
- synonyms: know, experience, live
- Go through (mental or physical states or experiences. )
- usage: "get an idea"; "experience vertigo"; "get nauseous"; "receive injuries"; "have a feeling"
- synonyms: experience, receive, have, get
- Undergo an emotional sensation or be in a particular state of mind.
- usage: "She felt resentful"; "He felt regret"
- synonyms: feel, experience
- Undergo.
- usage: "The stocks had a fast run-up"
- synonyms: have, experience
adjective
- Having experience; having knowledge or skill from observation or participation.
- synonyms: experient
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