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Definition of Submit

1. Verb. Refer for judgment or consideration. "The lawyers submitted the material to the court"

2. Verb. Put before. "They submit that there was a traffic accident "; "I submit to you that the accused is guilty"

3. Verb. Yield to the control of another.

4. Verb. Hand over formally.

5. Verb. Refer to another person for decision or judgment. "She likes to relegate difficult questions to her colleagues"

6. Verb. Yield to another's wish or opinion. "The government bowed to the military pressure"

7. Verb. Accept or undergo, often unwillingly. "We took a pay cut"

8. Verb. Make an application as for a job or funding. "We put in a grant to the NSF"

9. Verb. Make over as a return. "They had to render the estate"

10. Verb. Accept as inevitable. "He resigned himself to his fate"

Definition of Submit

1. v. t. To let down; to lower.

2. v. i. To yield one's person to the power of another; to give up resistance; to surrender.

Definition of Submit

1. Verb. (intransitive) To yield or give way to another. ¹

2. Verb. (transitive) or (intransitive) To enter or put forward for approval, consideration, marking etc. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Submit

1. to yield to the power of another [v -MITTED, -MITTING, -MITS]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Submit

subministered subministerial subministering subministers subministration subministrations submiss submission submissions submissive

submissively submissiveness submissives submissly submissness submit (current term) submitochondrial submits submittable submittal

submittals submitted submitter submitters submitting submittingly submodalities submodality submodel submodels

Literary usage of Submit

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The American and English Encyclopedia of Law by David Shephard Garland, John Houston Merrill, Charles Frederic Williams, Thomas Johnson Michie (1889)
"In Illinois, an executor has no power to submit a claim against his testator's estate to ... In Texas, it is held to be improper to submit a rejected claim. ..."

2. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy (1904)
"... such is the destiny of those rare and always solitary men who divining the will of Providence submit their personal will to it. ..."

3. Homerica, Emendations and Elucidations of the Odyssey by Thomas Leyden Agar (1908)
"A better and more probable correction would, I submit, be : — The corruption of this is simplicity itself, being merely the substitution of a more familiar ..."

4. Hunger by Knut Hamsun (1920)
"Well, I should have to submit to fate. I had noj been inside the family rooms before, this one common room in which they all lived, both day and night — the ..."

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