• Submit

    Pronunciation

    • enPR: sÉ™b'mÄ­t, IPA: /sÉ™bˈmɪt/
    • Rhymes: -ɪt

    Origin

    From Middle English submitten, from Latin submittō ("place under, yield"), from sub ("under, from below, up") + mitto ("to send"). Compare upsend.

    Full definition of submit

    Verb

    1. (intransitive) To yield or give way to another.They will not submit to the destruction of their rights.
    2. (transitive) or (intransitive) To enter or put forward for approval, consideration, marking etc.I submit these plans for your approval.
      • MacaulayWe 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.
    3. (transitive, mixed martial arts) To win a fight 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."
    4. (transitive, obsolete) To let down; to lower.
      • DrydenSometimes the hill submits itself a while.
    5. (transitive, obsolete) To put or place under.
      • ChapmanThe bristled throat
        Of the submitted sacrifice with ruthless steel he cut.
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