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For the verb: "to undertake"

Simple Past:	undertook
Past Participle:	undertaken

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
undertake/ʌndəˈteɪk/

▶verb (past undertook; past part. undertaken)

1 commit oneself to and begin (an enterprise or responsibility); take on.

2 formally guarantee, pledge, or promise.

'undertake' also found in these Oxford entries:

abdicate - accept - black - clerk - deputation - deputy - detail - enter - fight - follow - glutton - hand - hireling - houseboy - incipient - interest - obligate - pledge - spacewalk - special forces - strike - subscribe - take - undertook - underwrite - venture - vigilante

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