Submit
Pronunciation
- enPR: sÉ™b'mÄt, IPA: /sÉ™bˈmɪt/
- Rhymes: -ɪt
Origin
From Middle English submitten, from Latin submittÅ ("place under, yield"), from sub ("under, from below, up") + mitto ("to send"). Compare upsend.
Full definition of submit
Verb
- (intransitive) To yield or give way to another.They will not submit to the destruction of their rights.
- (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.
- (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."
- (transitive, obsolete) To let down; to lower.
- DrydenSometimes the hill submits itself a while.
- (transitive, obsolete) To put or place under.
- ChapmanThe bristled throat
Of the submitted sacrifice with ruthless steel he cut.