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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To yield or surrender (oneself) to the will or authority of another.
  2. v. To subject to a condition or process.
  3. v. To commit (something) to the consideration or judgment of another. See Synonyms at propose.
  4. v. To offer as a proposition or contention: I submit that the terms are entirely unreasonable.
  5. v. To give in to the authority, power, or desires of another. See Synonyms at yield.
  6. v. To allow oneself to be subjected to something.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To put or place under or down.
  2. To let down; cause to sink; lower.
  3. To yield; surrender to the power, will, or authority of another; subject: often used reflexively.
  4. To refer to the discretion or judgment of another; refer: as, to submit a controversy to arbitrators; to submit a question to the court.
  5. To propose; declare as one's opinion.
  6. To moderate; restrain; soften.
  7. To yield one's self, physically or morally, to any power or authority; give up resistance; surrender.
  8. To be subject; acquiesce in the authority of another; yield without opposition.
  9. To maintain; declare: usually in formally respectful expression of a decided opinion: as, “That, I submit, sir, is not the case.” Synonyms and To succumb, comply, bow.

Wiktionary

  1. v. To yield or give way to another.
  2. v. or To enter or put forward for approval, consideration, marking etc.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. To let down; to lower.
  2. v. To put or place under.
  3. v. To yield, resign, or surrender to power, will, or authority; -- often with the reflexive pronoun.
  4. v. To leave or commit to the discretion or judgment of another or others; to refer; ; -- often followed by a dependent proposition as the object.
  5. v. To yield one's person to the power of another; to give up resistance; to surrender.
  6. v. To yield one's opinion to the opinion of authority of another; to be subject; to acquiesce.
  7. v. To be submissive or resigned; to yield without murmuring.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. yield to another's wish or opinion
  2. v. accept or undergo, often unwillingly
  3. v. make an application as for a job or funding
  4. v. accept as inevitable
  5. v. make over as a return
  6. v. refer for judgment or consideration
  7. v. put before
  8. v. yield to the control of another
  9. v. refer to another person for decision or judgment
  10. v. hand over formally

Etymologies

  1. Middle English submitten, from Latin submittere, to set under : sub-, sub- + mittere, to cause to go.

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