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submit

  • /səbˈmɪt/

Rhymes with -ɪt

Where it comes from

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.

verb submits · submitting · submitted · submit

  1. intransitive To yield or give way to another. They will not submit to the destruction of their rights.
  2. transitive To yield (something) to another, as when defeated.
  3. ambitransitive To enter or put forward for approval, consideration, marking etc. I submit these plans for your approval.
  4. transitive To subject; to put through a process. I was submitted to a binding pledge.
  5. mixed, transitive 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.
  6. obsolete, transitive To let down; to lower. Sometimes the hill submits itself a while.
  7. obsolete, transitive To put or place under. The bristled throat / Of the submitted sacrifice with ruthless steel he cut.

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