submit

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.

• enPR: səbmĭtʹ, IPA^(key): /səbˈmɪt/
• Rhymes: -ɪt
• Hyphenation: sub‧mit

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submit (third-person singular simple present submits, present participle submitting, simple past and past participle submitted)

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. (transitive, intransitive) To enter or put forward for approval, consideration, marking etc.

   I submit these plans for your approval.

   • Macaulay

     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.

4. (transitive, mixed martial arts) To win a fight against (an opponent) by submission.
   • Okamoto, Brett (December 28, 2013), “Ronda Rousey wins with arm bar”, in (Please provide the title of the work)‎, ESPN.com, retrieved January 6, 2014

     "[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."

5. (transitive, obsolete) To let down; to lower.
   • Dryden

     Sometimes the hill submits itself a while.

6. (transitive, obsolete) To put or place under.
   • Chapman

     The bristled throat / Of the submitted sacrifice with ruthless steel he cut.

• submittable
• submittal
• submitter

• submission
• submissive
• mission

• submit in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• submit in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• submit at OneLook Dictionary Search

• tumbis