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submit
[ suhb-mit ]
verb (used with object)
- to give over or yield to the power or authority of another (often used reflexively).
Synonyms: resign, agree, obey, bow, comply
Antonyms: fight
- to subject to some kind of treatment or influence.
- to present for the approval, consideration, or decision of another or others:
to submit a plan;
to submit an application.
- to state or urge with deference; suggest or propose (usually followed by a clause):
I submit that full proof should be required.
verb (used without object)
- to yield oneself to the power or authority of another:
to submit to a conqueror.
- to allow oneself to be subjected to some kind of treatment:
to submit to chemotherapy.
- to defer to another's judgment, opinion, decision, etc.:
I submit to your superior judgment.
submit
/ səbˈmɪt /
verb
- often foll by to to yield (oneself), as to the will of another person, a superior force, etc
- foll by to to subject or be voluntarily subjected (to analysis, treatment, etc)
- troften foll byto to refer (something to someone) for judgment or consideration
to submit a claim
- tr; may take a clause as object to state, contend, or propose deferentially
- introften foll byto to defer or accede (to the decision, opinion, etc, of another)
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Derived Forms
- subˈmitter, noun
- subˈmittal, noun
- subˈmittable, adjective
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Other Words From
- sub·mit·ta·ble sub·mis·si·ble [s, uh, b-, mis, -, uh, -bel], adjective
- sub·mit·tal noun
- sub·mit·ter noun
- sub·mit·ting·ly adverb
- non·sub·mis·si·ble adjective
- pre·sub·mit verb (used with object) presubmitted presubmitting
- re·sub·mit verb resubmitted resubmitting
- un·sub·mit·ting adjective
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of submit1
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Example Sentences
A 64-year-old animal trainer, he makes the six-hour round-trip every two weeks to submit to her and explore his sexuality.
By giving an artistic veto to a madman, we submit to the mindset of a slave.
Allah seems unlikely to enter into a “personal” relationship with Muslims, who readily submit to the divine will.
In early October, Health Republic allowed me to submit a “grievance claim” which I filed, along with a pile of backup documents.
That is not to say the students who submit to the elitism and racism promoted by the USC Greek system are wholly sympathetic.
To this, it is greatly to be feared, the fiery Southerns will not submit without an armed struggle.
Very instructive here is the way in which children will voluntarily come and submit themselves to our discipline.
And submit your neck to the yoke, and let your soul receive discipline: for she is near at hand to be found.
Mr. Balfour, being an abstemious man, would not submit to the latter alternative, but consented to tell a story.
We leave Pernambuco, with a firm persuasion that this part of Brazil at least will never again tamely submit to Portugal.
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