submit
Verb
Verb Forms: submitted, submitting, submits
- To yield to a superior force or authority; to present for approval.
- refer for judgment or consideration
- "The lawyers submitted the material to the court"
- put before
- "I submit to you that the accused is guilty"
- yield to the control of another
- hand over formally
- refer to another person for decision or judgment
- yield to another's wish or opinion
- accept or undergo, often unwillingly
- make an application as for a job or funding
- make over as a return
- accept as inevitable
- To yield or give way to another.
- To yield (something) to another, as when defeated.
- To enter or put forward for approval, consideration, marking etc.
- To subject; to put through a process.
- To win a fight against (an opponent) by submission.
- To let down; to lower.
- To put or place under.
Examples
- After much deliberation, he decided to SUBMIT his seven-letter word, hoping it wasn’t a bluff.
- I submit these plans for your approval.
- They will not submit to the destruction of their rights.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English submitten, borrowed from Latin submittere, infinitive of submittō (“place under, yield”), from sub (“under, from below, up”) + mitto (“to send”). Compare upsend.
Synonyms
accede, bow, defer, give in, pass on, posit, present, put forward, put in, reconcile, relegate, render, resign, state, subject, take
Scrabble Score: 10
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