'Submit' definitions:

Definition of 'submit'

From: WordNet
verb
Refer for judgment or consideration; "The lawyers submitted the material to the court" [syn: submit, subject]
verb
Put before; "I submit to you that the accused is guilty" [syn: submit, state, put forward, posit]
verb
Yield to the control of another
verb
Hand over formally [syn: present, submit]
verb
Refer to another person for decision or judgment; "She likes to relegate difficult questions to her colleagues" [syn: relegate, pass on, submit]
verb
Yield to another's wish or opinion; "The government bowed to the military pressure" [syn: submit, bow, defer, accede, give in]
verb
Accept or undergo, often unwillingly; "We took a pay cut" [syn: take, submit]
verb
Make an application as for a job or funding; "We put in a grant to the NSF" [syn: put in, submit]
verb
Make over as a return; "They had to render the estate" [syn: render, submit]
verb
Accept as inevitable; "He resigned himself to his fate" [syn: resign, reconcile, submit]

Definition of 'Submit'

From: GCIDE
  • Submit \Sub*mit"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Submitted; p. pr. & vb. n. Submitting.] [L. submittere; sub under + mittere to send: cf. F. soumettre. See Missile.]
  • 1. To let down; to lower. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
  • Sometimes the hill submits itself a while. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. To put or place under. [1913 Webster]
  • The bristled throat Of the submitted sacrifice with ruthless steel he cut. --Chapman. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. To yield, resign, or surrender to power, will, or authority; -- often with the reflexive pronoun. [1913 Webster]
  • Ye ben submitted through your free assent. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
  • The angel of the Lord said unto her, Return to thy mistress, and submit thyself under her hands. --Gen. xvi. 9. [1913 Webster]
  • Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands. --Eph. v. 22. [1913 Webster]
  • 4. To leave or commit to the discretion or judgment of another or others; to refer; as, to submit a controversy to arbitrators; to submit a question to the court; -- often followed by a dependent proposition as the object. [1913 Webster]
  • Whether the condition of the clergy be able to bear a heavy burden, is submitted to the house. --Swift. [1913 Webster]
  • 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. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Submit'

From: GCIDE
  • Submit \Sub*mit"\, v. i.
  • 1. To yield one's person to the power of another; to give up resistance; to surrender. [1913 Webster]
  • The revolted provinces presently submitted. --C. Middleton. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. To yield one's opinion to the opinion of authority of another; to be subject; to acquiesce. [1913 Webster]
  • To thy husband's will Thine shall submit. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. To be submissive or resigned; to yield without murmuring. [1913 Webster]
  • Our religion requires from us . . . to submit to pain, disgrace, and even death. --Rogers. [1913 Webster]

Synonyms of 'submit'

From: Moby Thesaurus

Words containing 'Submit'