submit
verbcommon in dialogue
- //səbˈmɪt//
To yield or give way to another.
verb
- 1
To yield or give way to another.
They will not submit to the destruction of their rights.
We submit to their superior judgment.
- 2
To yield (something) to another, as when defeated.
- 3
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.
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.
The biology department at Texas Tech University – set in deeply conservative West Texas – asked faculty candidates in 2021 to submit statements on their commitment to DEI.
- 4
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.
- 5
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 series.
It was also the first time Goldberg has been submitted, enhancing Reigns even more than he already has been over the last two years.
- 6
obsoleteTo let down; to lower.
Sometimes the hill submits itself a while.
- 7
obsoleteTo put or place under.
The bristled throat / Of the submitted sacrifice with ruthless steel he cut.
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.
Forms
- past tense
- submitted
- past participle
- submitted
- present participle
- submitting
- third person singular
- submits