submit
To yield or give way to another.
Verb
- To yield or give way to another.
- They will not submit to the destruction of their rights.
- We submit to their superior judgment.
- To yield (something) to another, as when defeated.
- To enter or put forward for approval, consideration, marking etc.
- I submit these plans for your approval.
- We submit that a wooden spoon of our day would not be justified in calling Galileo and Napier blockheads because they never heard of the differential calculus. - 1843, Thomas Macaulay, Sir James Mackintosh's History of...
- Determined to learn from Bouch's mistakes, they conducted a through ^([sic]) survey of the riverbed. Having learned what they needed to know, they submitted plans for a new double-track bridge by the end of 1880. - 2020...
- To subject; to put through a process.
- I was submitted to a binding pledge.
- [Skins] must be submitted to several washings, treadings, and stretchings, before they acquire the necessary pliancy. - 1859, Victor Regnault, Elements of Chemistry:
- To win a fight against (an opponent) by submission.
- [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...
- It was also the first time Goldberg has been submitted, enhancing Reigns even more than he already has been over the last two years. - 2022 February 19, Erik Beaston, “WWE Elimination Chamber 2022 Results: Winners,...
- To let down; to lower.
- Sometimes the hill submits itself a while. - 1662, John Dryden, Poem to the Lord Chancellor Hyde:
- To put or place under.
- The bristled throat / Of the submitted sacrifice with ruthless steel he cut. - 1611, George Chapman, Homer's Iliads:
Origin
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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Derived
missubmit presubmit resubmit resubmitter submittable submittal submitter unsubmit unsubmitted