[syn: resign, reconcile, submit]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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.]
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Sometimes the hill submits itself a while. --Dryden.
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2. To put or place under.
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The bristled throat
Of the submitted sacrifice with ruthless steel he
cut. --Chapman.
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3. To yield, resign, or surrender to power, will, or
authority; -- often with the reflexive pronoun.
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Ye ben submitted through your free assent.
--Chaucer.
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The angel of the Lord said unto her, Return to thy
mistress, and submit thyself under her hands. --Gen.
xvi. 9.
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Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands.
--Eph. v. 22.
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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.
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Whether the condition of the clergy be able to bear
a heavy burden, is submitted to the house. --Swift.
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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.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Submit \Sub*mit"\, v. i.
1. To yield one's person to the power of another; to give up
resistance; to surrender.
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The revolted provinces presently submitted. --C.
Middleton.
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2. To yield one's opinion to the opinion of authority of
another; to be subject; to acquiesce.
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To thy husband's will
Thine shall submit. --Milton.
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3. To be submissive or resigned; to yield without murmuring.
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Our religion requires from us . . . to submit to
pain, disgrace, and even death. --Rogers.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
submit
v 1: refer for judgment or consideration; "The lawyers submitted
the material to the court" [syn: submit, subject]
2: put before; "I submit to you that the accused is guilty"
[syn: submit, state, put forward, posit]
3: yield to the control of another
4: hand over formally [syn: present, submit]
5: refer to another person for decision or judgment; "She likes
to relegate difficult questions to her colleagues" [syn:
relegate, pass on, submit]
6: yield to another's wish or opinion; "The government bowed to
the military pressure" [syn: submit, bow, defer,
accede, give in]
7: accept or undergo, often unwillingly; "We took a pay cut"
[syn: take, submit]
8: make an application as for a job or funding; "We put in a
grant to the NSF" [syn: put in, submit]
9: make over as a return; "They had to render the estate" [syn:
render, submit]
10: accept as inevitable; "He resigned himself to his fate"
[syn: resign, reconcile, submit]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
173 Moby Thesaurus words for "submit":
accede, accede to, accept, acquiesce, advance, advise, advocate,
affirm, agree to, allege, announce, annunciate, argue, assent,
assert, assever, asseverate, attend to orders, aver, avouch, avow,
be agreeable, be persuaded, bend, bend to, bow to, brief,
bring before, bring forward, bring up, broach, coach, come around,
come over, come round, come to, commend to attention, comply,
comply with, condone, confer, conform, consent, consent to,
consult with, contend, counsel, countenance, declare, defer to,
designate, direct, enter, enunciate, express, extend,
face the music, fall in with, follow the book, give, give way,
go along with, grin and abide, guide, harken to, have, heed, hold,
hold forth, hold out, insist, instruct, introduce,
issue a manifesto, keep, kibitz, knock under, knuckle down,
knuckle under, knuckle under to, launch, lay, lay before, lay down,
let go by, let pass, listen to, live with it, maintain,
make a motion, manifesto, mark, meddle, mind, moot, move, name,
name for office, nominate, not resist, obey, obey the rules,
observe, offer, offer a resolution, open up, overlook, park, place,
pose, posit, post, postulate, predicate, prefer, prescribe,
present, proclaim, profess, proffer, pronounce, propose,
proposition, propound, protest, put, put forth, put forward,
put it, put it to, put up, put up with, recommend, relax, relent,
resign, respect, rise above, run, run for office, say, seat, set,
set before, set down, set forth, shrug, shrug it off, speak,
speak out, speak up, stand for, stand on, start, state, station,
stay in line, stick, submit to, succumb, succumb to, suggest,
swallow it, swallow the pill, take, take it, take orders, tender,
toe the line, truckle to, unbend, yield, yield to