Submit
verb ·Common ·High school level
Definitions
- 1 To yield or give way to another. intransitive
"They will not submit to the destruction of their rights."
- 2 accept or undergo, often unwillingly wordnet
- 3 To yield (something) to another, as when defeated. transitive
- 4 accept as inevitable wordnet
- 5 To enter or put forward for approval, consideration, marking etc. ambitransitive
"I submit these plans for your approval."
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- 6 put before wordnet
- 7 To subject; to put through a process. transitive
"I was submitted to a binding pledge."
- 8 yield to another's wish or opinion wordnet
- 9 To win a fight against (an opponent) by submission. mixed, transitive
"[Ronda] Rousey, a former U.S. Olympian in Judo, caps off a perfect year in which she submitted Liz Carmouche in the first-ever UFC female fight and coached opposite [Miesha] Tate in "The Ultimate Fighter" reality series."
- 10 refer for judgment or consideration wordnet
- 11 To let down; to lower. obsolete, transitive
"Sometimes the hill submits itself a while."
- 12 make an application as for a job or funding wordnet
- 13 To put or place under. obsolete, transitive
"The bristled throat / Of the submitted sacrifice with ruthless steel he cut."
- 14 yield to the control of another wordnet
- 15 hand over formally wordnet
- 16 make over as a return wordnet
- 17 refer to another person for decision or judgment wordnet
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More examples"Submit your term papers to Professor White."
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.
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